Déjà Reviews

(Déjà Review) Lang Lang’s sparkling playing and considerable insights make for joyous listening [MC]

(Déjà Review) A fine release of rare and interesting repertoire that will appeal to lovers of the cello [MC]

(Déjà Review) A seasonal gift for a musical friend but you may be tempted to keep it instead as a treat for yourself [JQ]

(Déjà Review) Lovely music bound to please those already enthralled by Markevitch, Stravinsky and Bliss [RB]

(Déjà Review) Schnabel’s “Diabelli” set interpretative and intellectual standards which are a daunting challenge to all that followed [CH]

Works of stature and originality [PCW]

Starts with brief, polite applause and finishes with rapturous cheering, something I would have been actively joining in [TH]

This is an extraordinary album – outstanding readings, a detailed recording set in a generously broad acoustic [DW]

(Déjà Review) Drama and skill, production values of the highest … a major voice in the symphonic canon of the twentieth century [JW]

(Déjà Review) An unusually stimulating selection of (mainly) modern church music [NHo]

(Déjà Review) Rapturous, restive and troubled late-romanticism [RB]

(Déjà Review) A grand success and a major addition to the catalogue [RB]

(Déjà Review) I have been completely re-educated as to the substance and content of these pieces. What more can one ask for! [DC]

(Déjà Review) If you missed the earlier opportunities to acquaint yourself with these towering statements you should do so now, without delay [JW]

(Déjà Review) Makes me want to seek out more music by this composer and these performers. Should definitely be added to your collection [KS]

I cannot remember a record I’ve enjoyed more this year or one I felt compelled to listen to time after time [SA]

A worthy testimony to the art of Frans Brüggen [JV]

(Déjà Review) One of the stronger Warner Apex CDs. By all means buy it to play straight through and enjoy the stimulation of the juxtaposition of the music of these three composers [CC]

(Déjà Review) Thrilling, evocative performances captured in the best Chandos sound. Especially important for presenting the full score of Scott of the Antarctic [IL]

Repeated listening to these Schulhoff scores offers revelatory rewards [MC]

Freire enthusiasts should love the performances, sound deficiencies or not [DS]

(Déjà Review) A well documented, brilliantly recorded, excellently played and broadly sympathetic set of readings [JW]

(Déjà Review) Whatever superlatives you hear about this disc I urge you to believe them [MC]

(Déjà Review) Pure delight, this. Buy it [KS] – Thoroughly enjoyable fare. This is a most approachable coupling. [CC]