"...Rodriguez believes in this piece [Piano Sonata No. 1]. He plunges fearlessly into the cruelly thick textures with a surer command of the writing than anyone else I've heard...impressive, superbly engineered disc..." --Jed Distler --Keyboard Classics and Piano Style

"...probably the deftest performance of the D-minor Sonata in the catalog...This is advertised as the first volume in a complete run of Rachmaninov's solo works which, if the present is any guide to the future, will be a substantial addition to the catalog. Certainly, this first volume is enthusiastically recommended..." --Peter J. Rabinowitz --Fanfare