24 July 2024
The Times, Geoff Brown
Queen of Hearts
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‘If the listener doesn't go weak at the knees at the warmly immaculate opening chords of The Gesualdo Six's latest album then a hospital visit is recommended … intricate compositional skill, moments of the tenderest beauty and the thrilling sounds emanating from three, four, six or seven singers thinking, breathing and feeling as one’ (The Times)

22 July 2024

Reinecke & Sauer: Piano Concertos
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‘This 87th volume in the Romantic Piano Concerto series has been produced to Hyperion’s usual immaculate and imaginative level, with great pianism, splendid orchestral playing and interesting, if not wholly successful representatives of the genre. The documentation in the booklet is detailed, in English, French and German, and is well up to Hyperion’s usual exalted standard’ (MusicWeb International)
11 July 2024
Stereophile, Stephen Francis Vasta
Reinecke & Sauer: Piano Concertos
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‘Callaghan's sparkling, articulate runs in Sauer's scherzo repeatedly catch the breath. His playing throughout is masterful. The St. Gallen orchestra plays stylishly’ (Stereophile)
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6 July 2024
BBC Record Review, Andrew McGregor
Queen of Hearts
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Mille regretz—a thousand regrets to leave you and to be far from your loving face—attributed to Josquin des Prez in the mid-sixteenth century, flourishing in print. So heartachingly lovely and timeless … it's one of The Gesualdo Six's favourites, they tell us, and, sung with this kind of heart-stopping beauty, mine too’ (BBC Record Review)
6 July 2024
BBC Record Review, Andrew McGregor
Reformation
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‘Pianist Mishka Rushdie Momen is on a pilgrimage to restore a fuller picture of English Renaissance music after the 'cultural vandalism' of the English Reformation. Well-rounded musical portraits, rich pieces, beauty, charm, wit—and some delightful ornamentation’ (BBC Record Review)
6 July 2024
Rondo, Germany, Guido Fischer
Reformation
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„Allein schon für ihre Auswahl gebührt Mishka Rushdie Momen ein britischer Orden. Doch auch Momens „sprechendes“ Spiel erweist sich als treffsicher und ideal für die besonderen Wesenzüge dieser durchweg kunstvoll „gebauten“, aber dank ihrer Noblesse, Anmut und Innigkeit stets das Herz ansprechenden Stücke“ (Rondo, Germany)» More

5 July 2024
Presto Classical, Matthew Ash
Reformation
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‘I begin with a confession, that had I not been working at Presto I may have overlooked Mishka Rushdie Momen’s Hyperion debut, with so much music vying for my attention and a continuing stream of new recordings. It would have been my loss to miss this album of captivating music, musicianship and pianism … there is much to explore and enjoy here, in an album which rewards repeated listening and which leaves me in anticipation of what we hear next from this exciting new addition to Hyperion’s armoury of superb pianists’ (Presto Classical)» More
4 July 2024
Winnipeg Free Press, Canada, Holly Harris
Reformation
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‘Gibbons’s Alman in G, The King’s Jewel is infused with requisite nobility while the artist’s well-paced interpretation of Byrd’s The Bells bursts into rapid-fire figuration pealing with joy in this early summer pleaser a welcome addition to the baroque keyboard music discography’ (Winnipeg Free Press, Canada)» More

4 July 2024
The Guardian, Erica Jeal
Reformation
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‘Rushdie Momen is virtuosic in the dense variations of Bull’s Walsingham, introspective in Gibbons’s darkly beautiful Lord Salisbury Pavan, and always weaving the music through with fine-spun threads of trills and embellishments, lightly worn. It’s beautifully done’ (The Guardian)

4 July 2024
Prospect, Philip Clark
Schubert: String Quartets D112 & 887
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‘This is Schubert playing of the highest order’ (Prospect)» More
3 July 2024
De Standaard, Belgium
Queen of Hearts
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'Twee nieuwe werken geschreven op het lijf van The Gesualdo Six—een bezwerende bede van Owain Park en een bloedmooi neo-chanson van Ninfea Cruttwell-Reade—gaan dan weer vol voor de typisch Engelse­ensemblesound … puur en onversneden klankgenot' (De Standaard, Belgium)
2 July 2024
The Spectator, Damian Thompson
Reformation
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‘Mishka Rushdie Momen [is] one of this country's most gifted and intellectually curious young concert pianists … [Reformation] is performed with thrilling exuberance and subtlety’ (The Spectator)
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