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Both La boîte à joujoux and the similarly enchanting Children’s Corner are performed with deft panache by this quality orchestra, whose subtly shaded tone and style sound much more like those... — BBC Music Magazine, May 2022, 4 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 5 out of 5 stars (Recording) More…

Ogawa is an exceptionally fine advocate for this music; as with volume one, the piano sound is gorgeous. Her playing is never less than sensitive and beautiful...Ogawa's sense of colour combines... — BBC Music Magazine, September 2011, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Imaginative, sensitive programming has been a constant feature of Ruby Hughes’s collaborations; and this latest with the perennially adventurous Manchester Collective is no exception...A disc... — BBC Music Magazine, March 2024, 5 out of 5 stars More…

[Shui] brings out a remarkable level of detail in the filigree textures of this luminescent score, despite the otherwise wonderful recorded sound occasionally having a slight woolliness…Shui... — BBC Music Magazine, November 2017, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Every bar of these performances confirms Ogawa as a most elegant, scrupulously sensitive interpreter of 'music like a dream from which one draws away the veil' (Debussy). She achieves a magical... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 More…

…it is Ogawa's performance of the second book of Preludes that grabs the headlines, for she has both the range of colour and the emotional flexibility to bring the Preludes alive. It takes... — BBC Music Magazine, February 2006, 5 out of 5 stars More…

The four canonical pieces need no puffs from me and, like everything else on the disc, are played superbly...Ogawa is both self-effacing when required, and unfailingly prompt and sympathetic... — BBC Music Magazine, September 2021 More…

this new version fits snugly into an all-Debussy programme, revealing as it does a genuine feel for the music's fluidity of pulse and shading together with its mix of mysterious mists and gusty... — Gramophone Magazine, December 2014 More…