‘Superlatives fail me: just go out and buy it!’ (Hi-Fi News)

‘A feast for lovers of titanic piano playing’ (American Record Guide)

‘An exceptional disc by one of the keyboard phenomena of today … jaw dropping … an awesome display of virtuoso pianism’ (Classic CD)

‘Titanic … awe-inspiring … truly phenomenal … a disc I cannot recommend too highly. Buy it!’ (Gramophone)

‘Terrifying virtuosity, scorching pianism, ineffable beauty and a mind equal to his fingers, Hamelin is one of 19th-century piano music's most meteoric talents ever to blaze the pianistic firmament’ (Soundscapes, Australia)

‘The most dazzling piano disc of the year’ (The Guardian)

‘The multifaceted sound world is intoxicating, and the best parts are indisputably great … Thierry Fischer conducts the superb Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra in a definitive performance’ (Opera News)

‘Frank Martin’s Der Sturm, a setting of Shakespeare’s The Tempest is a revelation. By turns ethereal and richly textured, melodic and atonal, mysterious and literal, it is indeed such stuff as dreams are made on. Why it is not better known? … Robert Holl is a commanding Prospero, his resonant voice laden with authority, wisdom and all the cares of the world. At the end of a long opera his massive central role closes with an extended Epilogue that would test fainter hearts, but Holl never falters’ (Classical Source)

‘The hero of this performance is Swiss conductor Thierry Fischer who shows not only an understanding of Martin's sound world, but an ability to draw the most magical sounds from his excellent Dutch orchestra. With superbly involving sound, this cannot be recommended too highly’ (The New Zealand Herald)

‘Most suprising about this recording is its being the first complete account of an opera which, while hardly a mainstay of the immediate post-war repertoire, has a reputation and an intrinsic quality matched by relatively few such works from this period … the cast is a fine one, not least Robert Holl’s authoritative Prospero … Thierry Fischer secures a committed response from the Netherlands Radio forces, burnished strings and incisive woodwind … a near-definitive account of an opera whose take on The Tempest has yet to be equalled for sensitivity and insight’ (Gramophone)

‘For connoisseurs of choral music this is an essential buy. Outstanding performances of two rarely heard 20th-century masterpieces’ (Classic CD)

‘Quite remarkable’ (International Record Review)