Helios

He is… captivating in the Waltzes, delivering the bel canto musical line with great tenderness and affection and applying rubato in a spontaneous and entirely unmannered fashion. — BBC Music Magazine, February 2010, 5 out of 5 stars More…

These players demonstrate perfectly how a balance of scholarship and expert period performance can restore familiar music to such radiant good health that we wonder how it ever survived before — BBC Music Magazine More…

…Ohlsson brings a phenomenal variety of expression and depth of characterisation to these exquisite miniatures - an approach that manages to capture the folk elements of the composer's style... — BBC Music Magazine, February 2010, 5 out of 5 stars More…

A sparkling collection of gems honed to perfection by a fine craftsman — Classic CD More…

This repertoire is as delightful to listen to as it is to play … perfect evening listening — Classic FM Magazine More…

Grainger's eclectic idiosyncratic piano transcriptions, despatched with light-fingered clarity. Strauss swoons, Stephen Foster's all of a tingle. Excellent notes, too. — BBC Music Magazine, December 2011, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Can be recommended without reservation … the wonderful By beauteous softness, from Queen Mary’s Birthday Ode of 1689, given this performance, I could quite easily listen to for ever … there’s... — BBC Music Magazine More…

Demidenko brings unexpected clarity of texture and structure to two works that have often been criticised for being too orchestral in conception. The Finale of the fearsomely difficult Third... — BBC Music Magazine, June 2008, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Interpretation of Poulenc's songs never stands still. But this recording reminds us of the impetus these artists gave to this repertoire, both in sound and imagination. — BBC Music Magazine, November 2011, 5 out of 5 stars More…