Press

The Independent
Editor's Choice

Time Out
Editor's Choice

BBC Music Magazine
Five Star - ★★★★★
Reviews
Fanfare Review
“Exhibiting a combination of mastery and insight…A sound of striking richness and exuberance overall… These sonatas speak for themselves in these confident and sympathetic performances…Roche’s soaring melodic lines, moving dramatic declamations before subsiding in a dream-like state….The works’ interest should be able to propel them not only across the channel but across the ocean as well, especially in such enthusiastic and opulent performances…Recommended with special urgency”
The Strad
“This disc of rarities is very finely performed. Jacqueline Roche delivers its rich themes with a lavish tone colour…Performed with warmth and passion..The players breathe life in to the yearning chromaticisms of the opening Allegro and the finale has a wonderful sprightly brilliance”
Rob Barnett, International Music
“Played full out with total commitment from Roche…Intensely honeyed singing line…In general the admirable Jacqueline Roche carries her confidence high and harking back to Jurgen Hess’s broadcast also leaves him sounding positively tentative”
Yorkshire Post
"The young Jacqueline Roche is the highly persuasive yet sensitive soloist…A disc no musical Anglophile should be without”
The Gramophone
“Exceedingly persuasive performances..These are fascinating by-ways of British music pieces one never expected to hear – but with marvelous performances like these anything could happen”