Browse: Quartz (label)

The contrasts are sharp, bright, and witty, and the manically-driving tempos whirl us along. These players relish both the virtuosity required, and the chance to convey comedy; the Enchantment... — BBC Music Magazine, September 2016, 5 out of 5 stars More…

His idiom often strikes a balance between confrontational dissonance, engaging propulsion, and references that are well-informed and cleverly applied...[Upon Entering a Painting is] dedicated... — BBC Music Magazine, June 2012, 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…

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…