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She has a prodigious technique, so the bravura demands of Brahms’s Paganini Variations and Liszt’s Tarantella hold no terrors for her, and she makes Liszt’s intricate filigree writing a thing... — Sunday Times, 13th December 2009, 4 out of 5 stars More…

There’s something wonderfully unshowy about Medvedev’s performance here, despite the glittering quality of such works as Tchaikovsky’s Grand Sonata in Gmajor. Other pianists might be tempted... — BBC Music Magazine, January 2022, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Oshima and Stroissnig certainly seem to have a clear and disturbing picture of the sonata’s emotional implications, which are incorporated into an interpretation of impressive dynamic thrust,... — Gramophone Magazine, February 2017 More…

Golijov's 'The Dreams and Prayers of Isaac the Blind' is 'programmatic' on a number of levels. If this suggest a rather dry quasi-philological exercise, then Golijov's music is anything but... — Gramophone Magazine, July 2013 More…

You can’t fault the performances. Noakes plays with great agility and exquisite tone, whether spinning out the long phrases of the Trio’s Andantino or negotiating the flickering complexities... — Gramophone Magazine, August 2023 More…