‘The 38-strong Spanish choir produces a sound that is rich yet at the same time remarkably intimate and crystalline. The group’s honorary director is Peter Phillips and something of the silvery polish of his ensemble The Tallis Scholars seems to have rubbed off here. Choral textures are lucid and diction is generally clear … there is … a moving sincerity to these accounts’ (BBC Music Magazine)» More

‘Here we have some of the greatest, most formally innovative, inventive and deeply felt string quartets ever composed, delivered by a quartet of players of faultless intonation, unanimity and blend, whose approach to Haydn has matured through eight much-praised previous albums of his quartets, and who have evidently prepared the present set with minute care’ (BBC Music Magazine)

‘No other piano music written as recently has established a place in the repertoire like Ligeti’s Études … these works are here to stay, in the distinguished line of études stretching back via Debussy to Chopin. They require even more virtuosity, sometimes of a brain-teasing sort, and Danny Driver supplies it all’ (BBC Music Magazine)» More

‘Here we have two superb pianists working in perfect equipoise and harmony and the results are superb … two very fine musicians are having fun and those of us who hear the disc reap the benefits’ (MusicWeb International)» More

‘These performances present all of the music in a positive light. Howard Shelley makes a thoroughly committed advocate, Stanford scholar Jeremy Dibble contributes superbly written notes, and Hyperion’s engineers capture it all in vivid, lifelike sonics … Fairy Day, though, is worth the price of the disc. It’s a real find.’ (Classics Today)

‘The partnership of Lewis and Osborne has already produced one exceptional disc: Schubert’s music for four hands, including the Fantasie in F minor, one of the genre’s masterpieces. They renew their collaboration in a programme of French duets—plus Stravinsky of his Parisian years—framed by two of the most popular pieces in the repertoire, Fauré’s Dolly Suite and the original version of Ravel’s Ma mère l’oye. The two pianists lavish an almost orchestral palette of colours on both: limpid, translucent textures, vital rhythmic address and shapely phrasing of both composers’ melodies … an absorbing and brilliantly played programme’ (The Sunday Times)

‘Danny Driver’s performances are intensely focused but always alive to the deep humanity of the exercises, not just their ingenuity and complexity … and it's a luminous, detailed recording as well’ (BBC Record Review)» More

‘[Osborne and Lewis are] decorous guides to the old-world charms of [Debussy's] suite after delighting in the more piquant rhythms and harmonies of Poulenc's Sonata for four hands and the beautiful fairytale tints of Ravel's Mother Goose. It's excellent piano sound as well’ (BBC Record Review)

‘A meeting of two finely balanced, subtle musical minds’ (The Daily Telegraph)

‘Aristocrat or bumpkin? Joseph Haydn seems to be both at once, which is a large part of his appeal. His music effortlessly straddles the class divide, just as it straddles any number of other opposites: high and low, serious and comic, transcendent and everyday … this new recording of his radiant, wise and often mysterious set of six quartets Op 76 leans heavily towards the aristocratic … those minuets sidle into being with insinuating gracefulness, as if we’re in an aristocratic ballroom. It’s the same story in the spacious opening movements, the rapt hymn-like slow movements, and the helter-skelter finales … the London Haydn Quartet give those balanced phrases and sudden pauses a very different, tenderly expressive quality’ (The Daily Telegraph)

‘This music is so full of gusto, of passion, of a lust for life that it is nearly impossible to think of death. Especially in performances as persuasive, as rhetorically potent—as alive—as these’ (Limelight, Australia)» More

‘It would be hard to find a more highly committed advocate for this music than Howard Shelley who masters all the considerable technical challenges of these works with consummate ease, and the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra offers sturdy and reliable support throughout’ (BBC Music Magazine)» More