Mendelssohn - Rondo brillant in E flat major, Op. 29

With Stephen Hough's Mendelssohn we enter a new dimension. The soft, stylish arpeggios that open the first work here, the Capriccio brillant, announce something special. But this is just a preparation... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 More…

Dame Moura's virtuosity quietly stuns. Her Mendelssohn, Liszt and Litolff are fleet and joyful; Granados's The Maiden and the Nightingale and Debussy's Clair de lune sing from the heart. — BBC Music Magazine, October 2013, 4 out of 5 stars More…

[On the original release] a winning soloist [Isabelle van Keulen] with a soft tone like the finest-spun silk – plus strength to match, when required — Gramophone Magazine More…

Brautigam uses a copy of a Pleyel piano of 1831 – just a year before the First Concerto was composed – and he skates over its keys with dazzling ease…he negotiates the cascades of notes with... — BBC Music Magazine, March 2019, 4 out of 5 stars More…

The outer movements of the concertos fizz and sparkle as they should yet Helmchen finds time to sculpt phrase-endings without any loss of momentum, heightening the drama in the process. The... — Gramophone Magazine, January 2011 More…