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Kathryn Stott's enjoyable and warmly recorded recital of dance pieces has a Latin-American bias, an idiom for which she has an evident empathy. Stott shapes the sultry rhythms and sensuous harmonies... — BBC Music Magazine, October 2008, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Masques et bergamasques, which takes its title from Verlaine's sad, mysterious poem Clair delune, is a late stage work that the composer himself described as melancholy and nostalgic, but it's... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 More…

Christian Poltéra… phrases sensitively and makes the most of the composer's dynamic markings… Kathryn Stott is an ideal partner, managing her pedalling levels to produce a variety of textures...reinforc[ing]... — BBC Music Magazine, March 2008, 4 out of 5 stars More…

The Doric String Quartet and friends evoke a sepia-toned bygone time in their delicate but enthusiastic interpretations. They are too intelligent to add extra emotion to pieces already bursting... — BBC Music Magazine, April 2012, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Stott's approach is… measured…poetic. In her hands, the showers of notes garlanding the melody in On the Seashore have irresistible beauty, while the Czech dance entitled 'Hulán' ('lancer')... — BBC Music Magazine, Proms 2007, 5 out of 5 stars More…

As the work of a 24-year-old seeking to make his mark, Kabalevsky's First Piano Concerto is unsurprisingly replete with references to the Russian concerto tradition. Yet just as one notes the... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 More…

Stott and the Heritage Trio imbue the hushed sections with a sense of eerie menace, refusing to smooth the edges, which is certainly not to say they are rough and ready elsewhere...the exquisite... — BBC Music Magazine, April 2010, 4 out of 5 stars More…