Browse: CD, Hosokawa (composer)

Kodama is a subtle and poetic soloist in both works, in control of a particularly beautiful range of quiet sonorities in the Hosokawa and matching that, in the Mozart, with ‘pouring-oil’ passagework... — BBC Music Magazine, May 2021, 4 out of 5 stars More…

The flute-and-guitar repertoire may be small but one cannot say it doesn't cater for all tastes...[the Shankar] is mesmerising and, like the programme as a whole, a kaleidoscope of infinite colours... — Gramophone Magazine, December 2013 More…

Forget other recordings of Debussy's Etudes. Not that this is better than Gieseking, Pollini, Uchida, Bavouzet and the rest - it's merely that such comparisons are redundant...Kodama brings a... — BBC Music Magazine, June 2017, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Exquisite static lines overlay terrifying, tectonic bass drum thwacks in Meditation — to the Victims of Tsunami 3.11, while in Nach dem Sturm two sopranos sing a Hesse poem depicting storm-battered... — Sunday Times, 1st July 2018 More…

The individual variations, specially commissioned from contemporary composers and played here en suite, share an aroma of freshness due to their unfamiliarity. They also elicit from Buchbinder... — Gramophone Magazine, June 2020 More…

Much of the text is delivered as melodrama over suitably doomy, atmospheric textures from the 12-piece ensemble...Hellekant delivers it all superbly, though; without a performer of her dramatic... — The Guardian, 25th May 2017, 3 out of 5 stars More…

This is a masterful disc of challenging music that brims with the excitement obvious in its creation and execution. The music and the playing are completely matched, both rife with intensity... — Fanfare, Sep/Oct 2023 More…