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"This is the feature of the disc I like most: all the works are played with a deep-seated conviction and comprehension of the stylistic nature of the music. One cannot ask for more than that." (Chartres Cathedral)
"It is very rare that such infallible technique is used to serve music with such modesty." (Orléans Cathedral)
"From the first few bars of Bonnet's Etude de Concert, you can tell why Jane Watts' performances have gathered such superlatives." (Ulster Hall)
"(W T Best) .. probably the world's greatest concert organist of his day, he wowed his audiences with his phenomenal facility and musical flair. Miss Watts is sure to do just the same to today's listener." (Sydney Town Hall)
"Remarkable musicality and scorching vitality easily co-exist in detailed, propulsive, sensitive and buoyant performances." (Westminster Abbey)
"Miss Watts deployed her very great talent in her recital programme designed to show off this instrument."
"Jane Watts was magnificently splendid in this, the only organ recital of the Festival."
"{Widor's 5th Symphony} has a winsome, almost jolly, set of variations to begin, and Watts played them with great fluency - the variation in which the tune whirrs like a wasp was particularly effective, and she brought the final variation to an irresistibly exciting conclusion. The Toccata was both fiery and completely secure. Above all Watts reproduced the colours Widor wanted as faithfully as you could expect."
"Jane Watts' performance of Poulenc's Concerto for Organ was a marvellous kaleidoscope of light and shade, tumult and tranquility."
"In Jane Watts' hands, the perfumed pomp of Bach's Fantasia in G provided an exhilarating interlude."
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