‘Stephan Loges brings to his contributions the youthful warmth of his attractively vibrant baritone and his wonderful feeling for line and word … Lieder singing of the highest calibre … delightful … it is good to have all these songs, long hidden in libraries, available on CD’ (Gramophone)

‘Exceptionally lucid performances of three standards—performances that show off, in equal measure, the creativity of composer and the interpretive sensitivity of the pianist, undeniably among the handful of great perfomers of his generation … it's not news, but it's worth repeating: Hamelin's technique is unsurpassed; and no pianist of comparable virtuosity has applied his or her skills with more tact and subtlety … above and beyond the unparalleled level of detail, there's Hamelin's musicality and his consistently alert imagination, which give each of the 40-odd character pieces on this CD a distinct and meaningful character, mapping out the music's emotional shifts with a sureness that's astonishing’ (Fanfare, USA)

‘All these works are played with a youthful vigour, and in Papillons Hamelin captures the spirit of the 20-year-old composer with lightness and clarity, subtle rubato and a dash of humour’ (International Piano)

‘This is Hamelin's second Schumann recital for Hyperion. Once again, for the most part, there is a reassuring sense of a pianist expanding his poetic horizons as well as his legendary mastery’ (Gramophone)

‘Marc-André Hamelin's refreshingly robust yet subtle, crystalline playing does justice to both sides of the composer's strange personality, the passionate Florestan and the dreamer Eusebius’ (The Sunday Times)

‘Hamelin's combination of fleet-fingered delicacy and compelling drive suit Schumann's aesthetic ideally; but best of all is his gleeful sense of story-telling … the excellent sound-quality has all the warmth and detail that Hyperion habitually bring to Hamelin's CDs’ (BBC Music Magazine)

‘All three of these sets of pieces by Schumann—Papillons, Fantasiestücke and Carnaval—explore the world of the composer's imagination. And it is that sense of fantasy that comes across so beautifully in Marc-André Hamelin's performances’ (The Evening Standard)

‘Not since Sviatoslav Richter's classic 1962 live account of Papillons have these fluttering miniatures been so stunningly brought to life as by that genius of the piano, Marc-André Hamelin … add an entrancing Op 12 Fantasiestücke to surpass even Argerich's, a stunning production from Andrew Keener and exemplary notes from Misha Donat, and you have a Schumann disc made in heaven’ (Classic FM Magazine)

‘Chamber-music royalty … never more persuasive-sounding than here … a gorgeous, unmissable disc of great, too infrequently heard chamber music’ (The Sunday Times)

‘[In the Violin Sonata] Marianne Thorsen and pianist Ian Brown steal the show. It makes a superb finale to a disc that works equally well whether you sample individual pieces or savour it as a whole. Everything is well recorded … the balance is always exemplary’ (BBC Music Magazine)

‘This is an admirable compilation of consistently fine performances of almost all of Schumann's shorter chamber music for one or two instruments and piano, and as such is most valuable as a collection … the character and deeply musical expression with which each performance graces the individual scores reveals aspects of the composer's creativity which superficial accounts inevitably obscure … the performances throughout are each beyond criticism’ (International Record Review)

'You can really tell that Rattle loves this work. His approach is full of affection' (MusicWeb International)» More