Browse: Kodály (composer), Cello Sonatas

Kodály's Solo Cello Sonata is among the strongest, most searching of all his works, arguably the finest of all works for unaccompanied cello since Bach's suites, and here it receives a performance... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 More…

The recordings…were for a live audience so silent that these could be labelled ‘studio’ events. And the selection here, released for the first time, testify both to his versatility and his excellence... — BBC Music Magazine, June 2020, 5 out of 5 stars More…

The starting point for this delicious and distinctive Bohemian programme was Janácek’s Pohádka...Laura van der Heijden and Jâms Coleman unleash its power in this big-boned reading, with its hair-trigger... — BBC Music Magazine, March 2022, 4 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 5 out of 5 stars (Recording) More…

Müller-Schott ends this formidable unaccompanied recital with Pablo Casals’s Song of the Birds, played with the intense focus, the sense of line and the gleaming purity of tone that characterises... — Gramophone Magazine, March 2020 More…

Capuçon gives me practically everything I could want in a performance of [the Kodály] – narrative sweep, vibrant colour and rhythmic vitality as well as a wealth of soulful expressive detail,... — Gramophone Magazine, December 2021 More…

[The Kodály is] truly sensational: impassioned, almost confessional-sounding in the slower music, with a top-speed, dazzlingly brilliant finale that conjures whirling dervishes. — Gramophone Magazine, April 2023 More…

It's a deeply idiomatic performance [of the Kodály], as we can hear in the declamatory style of the opening and the delicate filigree of the second movement's ornaments...The writing for cello... — Gramophone Magazine, August 2010 More…

[Abel] a splendid piece, nearly a quarter-hour of pure beauty. Abel has the music dance between interior and exterior modes of expression, keeping us within this transitionary space. [Grieg]... — Fanfare, May/June 2022 More…