‘An outstanding recording artist. His new record of rare and brilliant Rachmaninov has a magnetism which from first to last is inescapable’ (The Guardian)

‘Stunning performances’ (BBC Record Review)

‘Fully deserves its reputation as one of the finest available interpretations of this music’ (Amazon.co.uk)

‘Even in what has become a crowded field, this is an outstanding version … the finest of all’ (International Record Review)

‘Best and his choir get right to the heart of the unique Rachmaninov Vespers … an unearthly sublimity which many will find extremely moving’ (Organists' Review)

‘Outstanding. A performance that is at once perceptive, sympathetic and finely sung’ (Gramophone)

‘A most beautiful performance, very well sung and recorded in an atmospheric, reverberent setting’ (The Penguin Guide to Compact Discs)

‘Rich and atmospheric, a blissfully unhurried reading’ (BBC Music Magazine)

'The London Symphony Chorus, under Simon Halsey, show not only evidence of great familiarity with the performing and recorded tradition of the work in terms of pacing and rhetoric, but also an injection of peculiarly British choral timbre, which brings a welcome and different perspective' (Gramophone)

'A pupil of Nathan Milstein, Hideko Udagawa retains the Master’s nobility throughout a programme of Rachmaninov transcriptions centered on Mikhailovsky’s skilful adaptation of the Cello Sonata' (BBC Music Magazine)

'Udagawa has a real feel for Rachmaninoff’s delicate expressive nuances … the recording balance is perfect, the violin never clouded by the density of the piano part, and the sound is brilliant and true' (The Strad)

‘Finely crafted and immensely polished performances’ (The Sunday Times)