‘A marvellous disc … this excellently chosen selection of Rachmnaninov's finest solo piano works is played with superb panache by Demidenko … with warm acoustic, a most appealing disc’ (BBC Music Magazine)

‘Sensitive, impassioned, tonally beautiful and technically impressive, Howard Shelley is among the finest Rachmaninov pianists’ (American Record Guide)

‘Masterly pianism … a refined awareness of Rachmaninov's sound-world. The recording is eminently realistic and natural’ (The Penguin Guide to Compact Discs)

‘Shelley and Macnamara find the necessary eloquence to bring life to the descriptive passages of the First Suite, and a real driving energy for the Second. The Symphonic Dances works beautifully for two pianos, and is played with consistently compelling sensitivity and flair’ (Classic FM Magazine)

«Le charme est allié à la plus grande probité intellectuelle. Du grand art» (Répertoire, France)

‘A highly commendable disc’ (The Penguin Guide to Compact Discs)

‘Outstanding … dazzling. Here is Rachmaninov playing of enormous stylistic panache’ (Hi-Fi News)

‘Uniformly fine, sensitive and idiomatic playing and sound that alternately caresses and thunders as the music requires, this disc is a bargain … of all these fine works it would be impossible to imagine more satisfying performances than these … altogether a feast for the ears’ (Fanfare, USA)

'In this homage to Rachmaninov, the pianist brings rare sensitivity to 23 Preludes, two teenage compositions, two very late ones, and Bax’s own arrangement of the Vocalise. The qualities he admires in Rachmaninov’s playing—lack of ego and a golden tone—are here in abundance' (The Independent)

‘With this intricate and enterprising recital the wondrously gifted Alessio Bax fulfils, in his own words, a long-cherished dream … these include his own arrangement of the Vocalise where, without surplus decoration (as in the Zoltán Kocsis transcription), he finds all of the composer's dark-hued melancholy, playing with an impeccable sense of vocal line and with an intense and stylish rubato' (Gramophone)

‘Elegant and scintillating’ (Gramophone)

‘Nothing less than a revelation’ (The Guardian)