Browse: CD, Popper (composer)

Gerhardt has a honeyed, liquid tone all his own. He has created a well-contrasted programme that clearly took a long time to research and hone...This is cello playing of exquisite sophistication... — BBC Music Magazine, August 2011, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Popper’s Elfentanz zips by in a hummingbird whirr of iridescent colour and needlepoint precision: spectacular playing by any standards. And Nadia Boulanger would surely have enjoyed the neoclassical... — Gramophone Magazine, February 2018 More…

Queyras and Tharaud clearly enjoy the process as well as the freedom of interpretation and presentation that the encore gives. But there is a niggling feeling here of something missing, and it’s... — BBC Music Magazine, March 2020, 3 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 4 out of 5 stars (Recording) More…

Brantelid more than meets the challenge, not only producing flawless examples of high-tessitura octaves, rapid arpeggiated cross-string semiquavers and formidable double-stops, but showing them... — The Strad, September 2022 More…

The performances by cellist Estelle Ravez and pianist Anaïs Crestin are quite fine. They traverse the repertoire’s diverse voices and styles in highly convincing fashion. The duo plays with infectious... — Fanfare, Sep/Oct 2022 More…