Category: Review

  • Wiederentdeckung des ukrainischen Komponisten Thomas de Hartmann

    “On this CD, we first hear a very virtuosic piano concerto composed by De Hartmann in 1939, which reminds one of the genre of film music, with touches of Russian romanticism, but also of jazz and blues.”     Remy Franck, Pizzicato Magazine, June 2022

  • MusicWeb International

    “All in all, this most welcome disk will be of considerable interest to those of us who love to investigate the byways of the music of the late 19th and early 20th Century…”   Jim Westhead,  MusicWeb International, May 2022

  • MusicWeb International

    “.. as all the music on this disc is highly distinctive and hugely enjoyable. Meantime, the present release is recommended with much enthusiasm as is, at long last, the music of Thomas de Hartmann in general.”   Lee Denham, MusicWeb International, April 2022

  • Fabulous de Hartmann Premieres on Toccata from Kuchar and the Lviv Philharmonic

    “I have no hesitation in regarding this release as one of the great discoveries of recent years. Thomas de Hartmann was the real deal.”   David Hurwitz, Classics Today, March 2022

  • International Piano

    “Together, these discs provide an unmissable survey of a composer whose music calls out for much wider exposure. Sicroff’s expertise is invaluable and his pianistic prowess second to none. ”   Colin Clarke, International Piano, July 2021  

  • 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…