Machaut

Conceived as ‘an audio voyage’, this programme makes associations between diverse repertoire through timbre, texture, colour and ‘affect’...In the hands of a gifted virtuoso like Eller, one... — BBC Music Magazine, November 2021, 5 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 4 out of 5 stars (Recording) More…

Bringing all this music seamlessly together are the remarkable sonic possibilities offered by the combination of cello and viola or viola d'amore. A fiddle and electronics are added for good... — Gramophone Magazine, September 2012 More…

There is plenty of lovely piano-playing here, from a fleet-footed Bach Chromatic Fantasy to an architecturally conceived Isolde’s Liebestod, which is my personal highlight. The choices of repertoire... — Gramophone Magazine, March 2019 More…

Beken is an accomplished composer in his own right and the whole recording has an involving, quasi-improvisatory feel, even down to the freedom with which the two players co-ordinate with each... — International Record Review, July/August 2011 More…

Some of the disc's most fruitful music-making involves Kopatchinskaja with clarinettist Reto Bieri, including a feisty conjunction of sparky violin and liquid clarinet in Milhaud's Jeu. The... — BBC Music Magazine, February 2016, 4 out of 5 stars More…