Warner Classics

Brahms's piano parts are wonderfully effective in transmitting the musical substance, but, shorn of orchestral colour, the emphasis is shifted to the quality and colour of the vocal writing,... — BBC Music Magazine, November 2006, 5 out of 5 starsMore…

Hendricks doesn't have the richness of voice ideal for Strauss, but she is intelligent, and her accompanists, whether on the piano or with orchestra, are models of helpfulness and taste. — BBC Music Magazine, May 2008, 3 out of 5 starsMore…

The players have an excellent sense of spontaneity, and of the chamber music element which is part of the style of these works. They listen acutely, and respond sensitively to Mendelssohn’s... — Gramophone MagazineMore…

Two of the most important British cello-orchestra works in very good but not quite top-rank performances. Speeds in the Britten are a little slow and Isserlis's cello is sometimes lost in orchestra... — BBC Music Magazine, January 2008, 3 out of 5 starsMore…

Lord has probably made a rod for his own back with this extraordinary Durham Concerto (the Avie recording is an essential purchase), but this near-concerto for piano, coupled with an equally... — BBC Music Magazine, July 2008, 5 out of 5 starsMore…