‘A glorious early Baroque Christmas treat’ (Harmonia)

‘My favourite ever Christmas recording. Lovely music, done with affection and great sympathy’ (Hi-Fi News)

‘A delightful record’ (Organists' Review)

‘Exciting and highly enjoyable’ (The Good CD Guide)

‘Well crafted music, sensitively performed and recorded’ (Gramophone)

‘Exemplary’ (Gramophone)

‘There are few pianists who offer such range and depth of palette: not even Ashkenazy's seminal reading … this has award-winner written all over it’ (Gramophone)

‘Outstanding Rachmaninov playing of acute perception, discretion and poetic sensibility, limpid, powerful and luminous in equal measure’ (BBC Music Magazine)

‘The velvet tone with which Osborne caresses the tendrils of the melody at the beginning of Op 23/6, the stunning clarity of the gesture in Op 32/6 and the fingerwork in Op 32/8, the gloriously saturated climax of Op 31/13 … the subtly of color and his unerring control of phrasing and dynamics over long musical spans, the lyricism never turns saccharine, the introspection never turns to self-pity, and the melancholy never glowering … Osborne is arguably at the top of the list’ (Fanfare, USA)

‘Rachmaninoff's piano preludes are exercises in grand keyboard virtuosity but it's the rare pianist who can bring out the limpid grace and emotional transparency behind those flurries of notes. Steven Osborne is such an artist, as this ravishingly beautiful new disc demonstrates … the results are magnificent’ (San Francisco Chronicle)

‘This astonishingly good full set recording … Osborne's musicality is exquisite, addictive and sensational. This is a disc you'll want to listen to over and over again’ (The Scotsman)

‘This is an absolutely superb disc, one of the very finest integral sets of these works I have ever heard. Osborne's playing is magnificent throughout … this issue simply has to go to the top of the recommended list’ (Musical Opinion)