Decca

Some extremely daring speeds guarantee excitement, pushing the technical limits in what are, of course, despite their generic title (Études , or Studies), so much more than technical exercises,... — BBC Music Magazine, July 2024, 5 out of 5 starsMore…

Finley and Davidsen sound like sleep-walkers as they plumb the depths of their shared predicament, and they are supported by a first-class cast. Stanislas de Barbeyrac’s agonised Erik and Brindley... — BBC Music Magazine, June 2025, 5 out of 5 starsMore…

Davidsen’s grandly sized soprano is headed for Wagner and other dramatic operas, but we know from recital appearances that she is also a very appreciable artist in solo song. Everything here... — Financial Times, 7th January 2022, 4 out of 5 starsMore…

This is a set that takes its seat confidently at the top table; and in places is touched with genius. Underpinning Lim's approach is a playfulness that animates even the most arcane examples... — BBC Music Magazine, March 2026, 5 out of 5 starsMore…

Uchida's explorative spirit and strength in finding the inner voice of the music remain undimmed. This is an album that will provoke conversation about the music and the musician, and which... — Matthew Ash, Presto Music, 24th July 2026More…

So impressive. Janine Jansen essentially strips these pieces of all the years of what one might call ‘performance adornment’ and takes them back to their elemental roots. — Gramophone Magazine, July 2024More…

Her Diabelli Variations are a triumph of wit and character…Yet it's in her handling of the profundity lying beneath that Uchida makes her *Diabellis* stand out. Underneath the constantly changing... — BBC Music Magazine, July 2022, 5 out of 5 starsMore…

Bělohlávek clearly knew that Smetana, far from being a cheap purveyor of catchy melodies and moment-to-moment thrills, was a sure-footed musical architect, and this recording pays the long... — Gramophone Magazine, March 2018More…

Britten was writing personally for three muses who had all shared the wartime experience...His incandescent commitment to pacificism and horror at the failure of humanism blazes forth...As you... — BBC Music Magazine, January 2012More…

There’s a marble-statue nobility to his playing, a sense of his powerful technique being harnessed to expression, and a seriousness-of-purpose…To end, we hear three of Brahms’s Intermezzos:... — BBC Music Magazine, May 2023, 4 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 5 out of 5 stars (Recording)More…