‘Playing of absorbing intensity … one of the most successful and spectacular piano discs of recent years’ (The Daily Telegraph)

‘Anyone looking for a recording of Messiaen's most famous piano work can do no better than Osborne's’ (The Guardian)

‘An ideal combination of spirituality and transcendent virtuosity. This is an outstanding achievement. If you enjoy Messiaen's music, you need to hear this’ (BBC Radio 3 CD Review)

‘Awe-inspiring’ (The Sunday Times)

‘Osborne and Roscoe play with dazzling splendour’ (Manchester Evening News)

‘The playing of these two wonderful pianists is flawlessly gauged and concentrated, with Osborne's high-speed, lucid playing in the finale, as it shifts into overdrive in its final section, out of this world’ (The Herald)

‘The precision and muscular virtuosity of Osborne's and Roscoe's playing is exactly what breathes life into the explicitly 'visionary' character of the work … the performance is lucid in conception and illuminating in its realization. Never laboured, it's marked throughout by a sense of ease, as well as by a sure sense of structure, of rhythmic detail, and of the diverse function and significance of each of the many layers in its complex 'mix' (International Record Review)

‘There is much to savour in Osborne and Roscoe's performance, captured in typically superlative Hyperion sound’ (BBC Music Magazine)

‘Played with an ear-tweaking sensitivity and gripping sense of theatre. Exceptionally fine sound, and exemplary notes from Nigel Simeone, complete an outstanding release’ (Classic FM Magazine)

‘These pianists have a marvellous accord in Messiaen's amazing, clangorous, rapturous, visionary jamboree. Only a pile-up of adjectives, to which should be added coruscating and addictively dithyrambic, could do justice’ (The Sunday Times)

‘Roscoe's piano handles most of the thematic material and the piano's lower reaches; Osborne supplies the iridescent details. Clarity and rhythmic precision cannot be faulted’ (The Times)

‘This performance gets the balance between the blistering, ecstatic intensity and the static moments of contemplation exactly right, presenting all the rhythmic and harmonic layers with perfect clarity, while Osborne's accounts of the three earlier solo pieces are a real bonus’ (The Guardian)