Jac van Steen

Samuel’s musical response is something of a tour de force - at once fiercely dramatic and always coherent…Hughes rises to the challenge with bombproof technical strength and control, plenty... — BBC Music Magazine, March 2020, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Bryan certainly has complete mastery of the [Rouse's] technical and expressive demands, as she does in Ibert's Concerto of 1933...Her playing of Debussy's Syrinx, the ne plus ultra of the solo... — Gramophone Magazine, August 2013 More…

Tryon's second disc for Somm once more distils her very recognisable virtues. Whether in Rachmaninov, Richard Strauss or Dohnanyi, her articulation remains clear and precise, her approach lyrical... — Gramophone Magazine, October 2014 More…

This fascinating disc... offers a snapshot of British musical tastes over the last 50 years — Classic FM Magazine More…

This is a valuable release and very well recorded…[the Mignone] is certainly more enjoyable than any of those by Mignone’s more famous compatriot Villa-Lobos. You can hear in the course of its... — Gramophone Magazine, February 2018 More…

A programme of works chosen for their meditative qualities, all offering something slightly different. Safe performances, though with Saint-Saëns’s Danse macabre it becomes more lively. — BBC Music Magazine, June 2020, 3 out of 5 stars More…

You can never have enough of Saint-Saëns’ Piano Concerto No. 5, a piece tailor-made to soothe and delight during stressful times. It gets better and better with repeated listenings... We’re... — The Arts Desk, October 2020 More…

[Valerie Tyron] modifies the composer’s Sturm und Drang in his D minor Concerto K466 with all of her impeccable taste and musicianship. Closer to Clara Haskil’s sobriety than to Argerich’s tempest-tossed... — Classical Music, June 2018, 5 out of 5 stars More…