Brahms - Piano Sonata No. 1 in C major, Op. 1

Plowright’s account of [the First Sonata] indeed feels like a revelation. Its reference to the opening of Beethoven’s Hammerklavier Sonata here appears exploratory, the sound dry but sweet,... — BBC Music Magazine, March 2018, 3 out of 5 stars More…

The Four Ballades are thoughtful and sensitive, coloured, as are all these performances, by the slightly astringent tone this artist favours. For me, Marshev's finest account is of the Schumann... — Gramophone Magazine, December 2005 More…

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

Kodama has long been fascinated by the love, friendship and music of this creative trio, and explores it here from Brahms’s point of view, opening with an energetic account of the Piano Sonata... — BBC Music Magazine, January 2023, 4 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 5 out of 5 stars (Recording) 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…

Golka's well-oiled fingers navigate the Beethoven's first-movement technical provocations fluently, with amazingly even trills to boot. — Gramophone Magazine, November 2014 More…