“No praise could be high enough for such an adventurous and challenging programme, particularly when offered in such vivid and affectionate performances… Enescu's 3rd Sonata is a wholly personal creation, played by NicolaMeecham with brilliant dexterity and musical devotion.” 

Bryce Morrison/Gramophone

“Excellent… Meecham is completely inside the music, alert to the expressive undertones and implications of Janacek's fragmentary, allusive style of writing…altogether a very distinguished recital.” 

Calum MacDonald/International Record Review

“…the complex multi-layering of Enescu's 'Third' Sonata is enough to make most mortals despair, but to do so with the sleight-of-hand reflexes and exuberant delight of Nicola Meecham borders on the sensational…[she] captures perfectly the child-like wonder that lies at the heart of On an Overgrown Path. Her close identification with Eastern European, folksong-inflected music is further demonstrated by her masterly traversal of Kodaly's Op.11 Pieces.” 

Julian Haylock/International Piano

"A very auspicious debut that presents unusual repertoire, excellently executed and recorded… Meecham's playing, as throughout the recital, reflects integrity and a clear understanding of the music... It is difficult to imagine a finer advocate than Nicola Meecham who has gone on to even greater achievements since, this her début."                   

David R Dunsmore/Musicweb International

"To control not only the notes of Schumann’s long and congested F sharp minor sonata, Op 11, but to perform them in a convincing way, takes a very special sort of pianist. Nicola Meecham, who chose it as centerpiece of her lunchtime recital at Edinburgh University yesterday, certainly proved equal to the task. Even, in the finale, by which point many performers are suffering loss of will-power, this deceptively demure young player made each resounding statement of the main theme gather an unstoppable force, strong enough to sweep aside all the intervening passagework and drive the music to its conclusion… One of her virtues was that she could focus on a melodic line without letting it become entangled in the convoluted figuration and obsessive rhythms which dominate the work. Thick textures evidently held no fears for her. The transcriptions of six Gershwin songs, with which she completed her programme, sounded quite Lisztian; but they, too, were impressively put over.”                

The Scotsman

''Wednesday's concert got off to a fine start with Leighton's Six Studies for piano, strongly realized by Nicola Meecham. It is very much to her credit that her playing constantly drew attention to the music itself rather than to the often hair-raising technical challenges posed by the works in her recital. In Roberto Gerhard's Dances from Don Quixote (played from memory) she seemed completely at ease. lndividual voices were clearly differentiated - so much so that I soon forgot that I was listening to a transcription of a complex orchestral score.''                                

The Musical Times

''A strong and commanding musician - I look forward to hearing her soon in some mainstream repertoire.”              

The Financial Times

'Nicola Meecham, from England. further perfected her interpretation and affinity for the music of Janáček, whose piano cycle In the mist she played with extraordinary understanding.''  

Prague Evening News

"Lambert's Piano Sonata made a striking impression in a superbly rhythmic and zestful performance by Nicola Meecham.''  

The Guardian

''Constant Lambert was represented by his brilliant Piano Sonata of 1927, which Nicola Meecham gave with sweeping confidence.'' 

The Times

“…beautifully played by Nicola Meecham. This type of performance is not easy to pull off: the pianist has to be spot on with response to the Speaker's Narrative, illustrating each episode with unerring capture of mood. She did it all to perfection. I want to hear her in other music - an artist with a future, no doubt at all." 

Musical Opinion

“…it would seem appropriate to comment on the quite superb playing by British pianist Nicola Meecham throughout the CD as a whole... which makes it a real little gem."  

Philip R Buttall/Musicweb International

"...when confronted by a disc such as this, containing the two completed (sonatas) in very fine performances, so well recorded, one can only bemoan the fact of their relative obscurity. Nicola Meecham here delivers performances of considerable distinction, which are moreover excellently recorded… I hope to hear more from this fine artist in the not too distant future."  

James Palmer/Musical Opinion