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His readings have the easy authority of one who has no difficulty in tracing the composer's most casual thoughts, even if he does not always follow his instructions to the letter. Brendel shows... — Gramophone MagazineMore…

With panache [Gardiner] shows how authentic-sized forces can convey Handelian glamour even with sharply focused textures and fast speeds...the overriding glory is the singing of the Monteverdi... — Penguin Guide, 2011 editionMore…

Uchida's concentration and inwardness are of a rare order in her absorbed, deeply poetic reading of the B flat Sonata. No pianist makes you so aware how much of the first two movements is marked... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010More…

Iván Fischer and his Hungarian band join the most august company in this wonderful repertoire.
As both sets of dances amply demonstrate, Fischer's Budapest Festival Orchestra is no less virtuosic... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010More…

Kocsis gives arguably the finest account available of the original version of Rachmaninov's Second Sonata. In the Preludes and Etudes he is thrillingly uncompromising. — BBC Music Magazine, November 2006, 5 out of 5 starsMore…

This is the work of an artist with colossal integrity, for whom ideation and execution are one and the same. — Gramophone Magazine, May 2006More…