Odradek Records

Pietsch and Hayashida are uncompromising in their approach to the pair of sonatas. The works’ jagged edges and silken curves are expertly navigated, while the shorter folk dances afford the... — BBC Music Magazine, January 2022, 4 out of 5 stars More…

A rather nicely planned programme, in which pairs of Strauss songs alternate with songs by composers from in and around the same aesthetic orbit…The soprano has a good line in the floated phrase... — Gramophone Magazine, February 2018 More…

This album of operatic arias is entitled ‘Majesty’ and there’s certainly an imperious ring to her bright, hard tone which earns the ‘majestic’ tag. It’s not a tone I warm to, however...The best... — Gramophone Magazine, February 2020 More…

It’s built around Vaughan Williams’s Songs of Travel, and Liverman’s account of the opening song, ‘The Vagabond’, combines a firm, oaky baritone with a sharp interpretative attitude – this wanderer... — BBC Music Magazine, April 2020, 4 out of 5 stars More…