Ehnes’s playing  [is] a feast of likeably gloss-free tone, magisterial technical command and flawless tuning…Ehnes responds to [the Spring Sonata] as the soul-warming masterpiece it is: the very first note of the violin’s opening phrase here becomes a quietly radiant musical world in itself…Armstrong’s accompanying, personable and rock-steady, is a pleasure to savour at every point

I’ve said before that I don’t think James Ehnes is capable of making an unmusical sound…And it’s also fair to say that I don’t think Armstrong is capable of making an unmusical sound, either...these remain chamber performances, captured by Onyx in a realistic but lucid acoustic...The fact that two artists of such extraordinary technical skill can demonstrate their whole range without straining the intimate spirit of the duo-sonata medium is just another miracle of this captivating cycle.