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  • Gramophone Review: Thomas de Hartmann Project CDs, released by Nimbus Alliance Records

    “The performances are uniformly of the highest quality…all the musicians consistently sound as though they relished Hartmann’s idiomatically conceived, sometimes sinuous melodies. If I had to recommend just one performance, it would be Janssen and Sicroff’s of the magnificent Cello Sonata, one of the finest for the instrument penned in the 20th century…an unalloyed masterpiece…

  • The Piano Music of de Hartmann

    “Sicroff is a fine pianist who brings out the best in each work on this set. This is a fine introduction to de Hartmann’s music and a valuable contribution to the history of 20th-century music.”   Lynn René Bayley, Art Music Lounge, March 25, 2021

  • International Piano Masterclass

    12:11, 21st May 2021   Thomas de Hartmann specialist Elan Sicroff unlocks the secrets of two nocturnes by the Russian master   The Nocturnes Op 7 No 5 and Op 84 No 1 by Thomas de Hartmann provide a good introduction to his music, bookending his creative work. Before going into detailed discussion about them, however, some…

  • Piano Music MWI Woolf

    “Elan Sicroff proves an exceptional exponent of a sometimes bewilderingly diverse range of musical influences – from the nineteenth century via the salon and thence to Scriabin, Stravinsky, and perhaps a little Bartók. These represent, at least, some of the staging posts of de Hartmann’s musical journey…”       Jonathan Woolf, Music Web International,…

  • De Hartmann’s Chamber Music

    “…the de Hartmann Project has done the world an immense service in finally presenting a somewhat orderly and in-depth look at this talented composer whose work has been not only vastly underrated but almost wholly ignored by the rest of the classical music world.”     Lynn René Bayley, Art Music Lounge, March 28, 2021

  • The Piano Music reviewed by Music Web International

    “I came to this collection with no expectations, not until now having been particularly aware of Thomas de Hartmann’s piano music. This is a brilliant survey, superbly played and recorded, of some tremendously worthwhile music.”   Dominy Clements, Music Web International, March 2021