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Although most of these pieces have been collated on various anthologies of French piano music, few of them can match this new release in its balanced conception or consistency of execution…Soares... — Gramophone Magazine, May 2019 More…

Fauré’s Après une rêve, Bruch’s Kol Nidrei and Brahm’s Vier ernste Gesänge performed on the trombone? Really? Well emphatically yes, when played with such intuitive phrasal sensitivity, intonational... — BBC Music Magazine, September 2018, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Armstrong’s performance [of Rhapsody in Blue] is hugely enjoyable...Perhaps most interesting is Nadia Boulanger pupil Julia Perry’s minuscule Prelude, which moves through harmonic centres with... — BBC Music Magazine, March 2024, 4 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 3 out of 5 stars (Recording) More…

The result falls between two stools: when Bach’s harmonic structure is preserved, the music has direction and purpose; otherwise it can fall into note-spinning. — BBC Music Magazine, March 2022, 4 out of 5 stars More…

the playing is exquisitely judged, shifting between fragility and strength, alienation and familiarity. The recorded sound is intimate, creating compelling sonic affinities. — BBC Music Magazine, March 2023, 4 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 5 out of 5 stars (Recording) More…

This impressive recording comes from an ensemble that is reaching its maturity in a superb way...There’s an excellent finesse to the group’s playing , which holds their individual contributions... — BBC Music Magazine, February 2024, 4 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 5 out of 5 stars (Recording) More…