Szymanowski - Variations on a Polish Theme Op. 10

Hammond casts her net with a flairfulness and acuity ‘rich in contrast’ (to purloin Sofia Gubaidulina’s description of her 1963 Chaconne which, under Hammond’s exhilaratingly determined fingers,... — BBC Music Magazine, April 2021, 4 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 5 out of 5 stars (Performance) More…

Roscoe takes wing through it all, rising nobly to the poetry of the Fantasia and the Variations... A genuine bargain. — Fanfare More…

Vehviläinen copes resourcefully with [the First Sonata’s] thicket of over-written textures, replete with double glissandos and multi-voiced trills. It may be, however, that her intrepid pianism... — Gramophone Magazine, March 2018 More…

Exaggeration and excess are certainly major ingredients of Szymanowski’s musical language, and the question for interpreters is whether to exaggerate them further or to temper them. Martin Roscoe... — Gramophone Magazine, January 2019 More…