«Cet enregistrement est une véritable prouesse esthétique et musicale … après leurs éblouissants enregistrements de Willaert (2010) et Lassus (2015), les chanteurs de l'ensemble Cinquecento accomplissent de nouveau un travail musical exceptionnel, redonnant ses lettres d'or à ce répertoire méconnu» (Classica, France)

‘Edmund Rubbra's Piano Concerto in G is something special … Piers Lane's solo playing throughout is a phenomenon of tireless technical strength, always beautifully aligned to each work's different style, and with classy orchestral support at every point’ (BBC Music Magazine)

‘Here’s a terrific new version of the dashing Piano Concerto that Bliss wrote for Solomon … Piers Lane dispatches those fearsome double octaves at the outset with thrilling bravura swagger, his contribution throughout evincing both sinewy strength and fine rhythmic snap, while at the same time extracting every ounce of lyrical beauty from the many more introspective passages … a most impressive display, this, and genuine tonic to boot … with its admirably realistic sound and truthful balance, this represents a most stimulating and enjoyable addition to Hyperion’s invaluable Romantic Piano Concerto series’ (Gramophone)

‘Marc-André Hamelin is just the kind of pianist you need to make the most of some of the great nineteenth-century virtuoso pianists’ entertaining operatic transcriptions … making light of Liszt’s virtuosic demands in—well, everything here; all these operatic transcriptions and fantasies. Such prodigious technique that he always has time to make musical sense when lesser pianistic mortals would be happy just to play the dots. You need pianism of this elevated quality to fully appreciate the genius of Liszt and the imagination of Thalberg’ (BBC Record Review)

‘You want intensity, passion, drive and hard-won exaltation? You certainly get them all in this new recording of the Shostakovich Cello Concertos from Alban Gerhardt. Sweetness and toughness in the solo cello sound; he’s prepared to dig into the strings for the edge he wants, spurred on by the urgency of the orchestral playing from the West German Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted by Jukka-Pekka Saraste. They take Shostakovich’s ‘Moderato’ marking for the middle movement [of No 1] seriously: a flowing tempo, not too slow, but it's still shot through with nostalgic melancholy, and Gerhardt delivers the great solo cadenza into the Finale with soulful introspection. The second concerto reaches darker places, and the recording frames them with a kind of claustrophobic depth that’s really effective.’ (BBC Record Review)

‘Wonderful discoveries … I am smitten by these scores. The Potton Hall recordings (February 2019) are superb, ideally capturing the trusted partnership of Piers Lane and the Goldner Quartet—musicians who seem totally convinced of these works’ considerable worth’ (colinscolumn.com)» More

‘[A] flabbergasting new recording … [Hexaméron] makes for an arresting opening on this album, with Hamelin revelling in the diversity of each composer-pianist’s technical strengths … his wry acknowledgement of Liszt’s desire to have the last word genuinely made me chuckle: the gloves truly come off for the home straight as he races towards the finishing-line with a crazily accelerating flurry of double-octaves, then smashes through it in a thunderous closing chord which hangs in the air for a good five seconds. It’s jaw-dropping pianism’ (Presto Classical)» More

‘Performances are committed throughout … an eminently desirable and rewarding disc’ (British Music Society Journal)» More

‘Four more paraphrases follow … performed with astounding virtuosity and true Romantic abandon by Marc-André Hamelin. The Canadian pianist of world renown performs on a Steinway grand and let me assure you it will sound as if the piano were in your living room’ (The Whole Note, Canada)» More

‘Here are two recent works by Sir James MacMillan in outstanding performances. The quality of the recording is well up to the standards we expect from Hyperion and the disc boasts a first-rate insert note by Paul Conway. No MacMillan admirer, nor any listener interested in contemporary music of the highest possible quality, will want to miss this’ (MusicWeb International)» More

‘The virtuosity required by these five Romantic items is well supplied by Hamelin, who invests it with his own dedicated poetry’ (The Sunday Times)

‘Measured, meticulous, occasionally maverick and often magical, Stephen Hough’s eagerly anticipated Beethoven Piano Concertos cycle doesn’t disappoint. Marrying interrogative insight and interpretative individuality, it delivers vital, vivacious accounts that capture the grandeur and gravity, poetry and pathos, wit and finesse of these remarkable works … expect gongs aplenty when this year’s awards come around’ (Limelight, Australia)» More