Browse: Kodály (composer), 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 compelling reason for acquiring this disc...is Clein's magnificent account of the Solo Sonata, Op. 8...Clein's depth of tone makes an immediate impact on this well-engineered recording...A... — BBC Music Magazine, July 2010, 5 out of 5 stars More…