Sibelius - Five Characteristic Impressions, Op. 103

What makes this set something special isn’t so much the music as the top-flight artistry of its performer. Janne Mertanen’s playing offers penetrating lyrical focus, a mesmerising range of keyboard... — BBC Music Magazine, July 2016, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Tong’s interpretations are on the swiftish side, in the Allegro first movement of the first Sonatina, I find his choice of tempo here, and indeed throughout- the most natural. The Sonatinas are... — International Piano, November/December 2017, 4 out of 5 stars More…

for a single-disc survey, why not hear [Sibelius's complete piano works] on an instrument of the day rather than a more modern specimen built for the kind of concert-hall projection that is irrelevant... — Gramophone Magazine, July 2015 More…