Ustvolskaya - Piano Sonata No. 5

De Leeuw and his fellow musicians give forceful and precise performances in this first recording of this deeply courageous and unrelentingly sombre music to be made outside Russia. — BBC Music Magazine, March 2018, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Alexei Grotz's performance of the manic, obsessive Third Sonata is masterful...Lubimov's own performance of the Sixth Sonata fights for a granite beauty within Ustvolskaya's monodies and clusters,... — Gramophone Magazine, July 2015 More…

Schleiermacher aptly describes the most percussive sections of the compellingly performed Fifth Sonata as ‘a bloodbath on the keys’. There are also some moments of repose, but in Schleiermacher’s... — BBC Music Magazine, August 2018, 3 out of 5 stars/5 out of 5 stars More…