"... an 1851 Erard is revelatory....there is a brilliance and bell-like clarity in the upper registers...each note registering with a definition unavailable to the modern piano...the music does indeed emerge like an old master painting restored to pristine condition."
"Playing on David Winston's copy of an 1823 Brodmann - an instrument I crave like I have craved nothing else ...notes emerged from the misty orchestral pianissimi like a thread of rosy seed-pearls: clean, cool, unique and sweet....this was a performance that transfixed both audience and orchestra....A generous, rapt, exciting embodiment of a rare sound-world...."
"There is a wonderful warmth of sound and depth of tone from the focal point of this recording--Beethoven's fortepiano built by Thomas Broadwood in 1817, and quite magnificently restored by David Winston."
"A jewel in the crown... Chopin's 1846 Pleyel... now beautifully restored by David Winston"
"....not many recordings so infallibly evoke a place and time as this one does.. The instrument used is a copy (by David Winston) of a delicate, pearly-toned piano made by Joseph Brodmann in 1823"