Browse: Szymanowski - Valse Romantique

…Martin Roscoe has compiled a programme that serves to underline the composer's extraordinary journey from conventional late-Romanticism via the complex and almost mystic impressionism of the... — BBC Music Magazine, January 2006, 4 out of 5 stars More…

[Fowke's] playing is that of a true virtuoso, sumptuously coloured and inflected, while Marc-Andre Hamelin displays all of his superhuman command in his own savagely intricate Prelude and Fugue... — Gramophone Magazine, October 2010 More…

Vehviläinen copes resourcefully with [the First Sonata’s] thicket of over-written textures, replete with double glissandos and multi-voiced trills. It may be, however, that her intrepid pianism... — Gramophone Magazine, March 2018 More…

Exaggeration and excess are certainly major ingredients of Szymanowski’s musical language, and the question for interpreters is whether to exaggerate them further or to temper them. Martin Roscoe... — Gramophone Magazine, January 2019 More…