Browse: Chamber, Sonatas, Violin Sonatas, Poulenc (composer)

[Gastinel] and Claire Desert have a wonderfully intuitive partnership and both draw on subtle, inimitable soundworlds....Gastinel brings the right note of nonchalant simplicity to Debussy's Sonata...Where... — BBC Music Magazine, March 2012, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Baker brings out each work’s sweet melancholy with expressive phrasing. Through his lightly handled bowing, the opening phrases of the Copland Sonata morph effortlessly into a dance rhythm...Even... — BBC Music Magazine, July 2021, 4 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 5 out of 5 stars (Recording) More…

Invidious as it may seem to pick out just one of these excellent artists, special mention must be made of Ian Brown, who plays in nine of the 13 works included and confirms his standing as one... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 More…

This is a fresh, consistently stimulating account of Ravel’s sonata, all the more effective for its avoidance of special pleading..[in the finale] Tomita and Callaghan hit a groove facilitating... — BBC Music Magazine, April 2022, 4 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 5 out of 5 stars (Recording) More…

Fervent and passionate, [the Strohl] proves tremendously listenable; and here Moreau and Kadouch give it all they’ve got…[In the Franck] they seem at times too get up…The Poulenc, however, flowers... — BBC Music Magazine, April 2018, 4 out of 5 stars More…

This is an excellent, spirited two-CD set...A facotr that comes across clearly here is that Poulenc had a more or less infallible ear for tapping into the timbre and personality of different... — Gramophone Magazine, June 2012 More…