‘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

‘It's all the more interesting to hear it from the hands of one of today's greatest woman pianists … her fascinating playing of every note-from the (apparent) simplicity of 'Traümerei' in Kinderszenen to the technical and expressive complexities of the second sonata-bears out the truth of this’ (Manchester Evening News)

‘Hewitt's awareness of counterpoint and her skill at putting it across suits Schumann's colourfully woven textures to perfection … Kinderszenen is balanced just right: never sentimental but always touching and with a delicious sense of intimacy and fun’ (BBC Music Magazine)

‘Schumann's piano music needs a pianist with supple fingers, fluid pacing, a sense of poetry and multitudinous colours. Angela Hewitt possesses all of these and gives immensely polished performances of three jewels from the mid-1830s’ (The Times)

‘Hewitt plays 'Traümerei with tender loveliness … [Davidsbündlertänze] Hewitt projects the varying moods very well. She incoroprates the virtuosity of the dynamic pieces into her musical characterization of them, while she sustains the mood of the inward ones … with rapt beauty’ (International Record Review)