Klassikradio Stephansdom, Wien, 17.12.2015
CD OF THE DAY
Welcher Farbenreichtum und welche Freude auch die feinnervigen Strukturen der Musik zu genießen.


FNAC, France, October 2015
Le mot de l’editeur 
Tobias Koch, brillant pianofortiste allemand et schumanien reconnu, mène avec habileté et virtuosité le débat avec l’excellent et expérimenté Pleyel Quartet Köln.
…quelle énergie et cohérence dans le jeu des interprètes. Pas d’ennui, de la fougue, de la musicalité comme on l’aime.
Philippe Zanoly

CD HOT LIST, New Releases for Libraries, Rick Anderson,  11/2015
For decades, the period-instrument movement has focused on the Renaissance, baroque, and classical periods–understandably enough, given that the structural and sonic differences between modern and early instruments are most dramatic there. But there is now increasing interest now playing the music of the Romantic period on instruments that are constructed and set up according to 19th-century practice, and one result is this excellent recording by the Pleyel Quartet with historical keyboardist Tobias Koch. Here Koch plays an 1860 pianoforte equipped with its original leather hammerheads and the quartet plays with period-appropriate bows and strings. The resulting sound is noticeably (if not dramatically) different from what one usually hears with this repertoire, and it’s very attractive. The playing itself is wonderful as always from this group.