Szymanowski - Four Polish Dances

Vehviläinen copes resourcefully with [the First Sonata’s] thicket of over-written textures, replete with double glissandos and multi-voiced trills. It may be, however, that her intrepid pianism... — Gramophone Magazine, March 2018More…

This CD offers a cross-section of Szymanowski's styles as a composer for the keyboard, from the early First Sonata (always described as post-Chopin and post-Scriabin but, Roscoe convincingly... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010More…

Exaggeration and excess are certainly major ingredients of Szymanowski’s musical language, and the question for interpreters is whether to exaggerate them further or to temper them. Martin Roscoe... — Gramophone Magazine, January 2019More…