Brahms - Variations on an Original Theme in D major, Op. 21, No. 1

Martin Jones is a skilled and sensitive artist with an imaginative response that is faultless. — Gramophone Magazine More…

he's a born Brahmsian, equipped at the highest level with the necessary speed and power, the muscular strength and facility of finger tempered by breadth of outlook and solidity of intellect. — BBC Music Magazine, December 2010, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Plowright delivers this highly charged musical argument with tremendous momentum, but is careful to follow Brahms's meticulous pedal marks, thus ensuring that none of the full-blooded textures... — BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2014, 5 out of 5 stars More…

a player of great intelligence, capable of really sustained concentration ... the musicianship is impressive. — International Record Review, February 2014 More…

The perfect case of a pianist who sounds completely relaxed in the studio and, because of that, manages to balance assertiveness and poetry in ideal proportions. Gerhard Oppitz is a penetrating... — Gramophone Magazine, September 2007 More…

The American pianist Julius Katchen made his name in the early 1950s and died in 1969, but although he's generally though of as a distinguished figure from the last generation, it's salutary... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 More…