Presto Recordings of the Year, Medtner (composer)

What comes across most winningly is the ebb and flow of the work: the more inward passages are allowed to breathe; the extrovert ones are absolutely fiery. It's not a work that could ever be... — Gramophone Magazine, October 2014 More…

Alder needs her linguistic wits about her – pianist Joseph Middleton too as he responds to or prefigures her changing colours and inflections. Both triumph across a nightscape in which dreaming... — BBC Music Magazine, March 2020, 4 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 5 out of 5 stars (Recording) More…

Sudbin offers an attractive selection of solo works…Medtner’s own Prologue to Op. 1, a tintinnabulation of Russian-style bells accompaying Orthodox-style chant, is a charming opener…[he is]... — BBC Music Magazine, June 2016 More…

These are superb performances of two underestimated concertos...this is unquestionably an engaging account, Sudbin's glistening and expressive virtuosity matched by Andrew Litton and the Bergen... — BBC Music Magazine, February 2015, 5 out of 5 stars More…