Quartz

Golijov's 'The Dreams and Prayers of Isaac the Blind' is 'programmatic' on a number of levels. If this suggest a rather dry quasi-philological exercise, then Golijov's music is anything but... — Gramophone Magazine, July 2013 More…

You can’t fault the performances. Noakes plays with great agility and exquisite tone, whether spinning out the long phrases of the Trio’s Andantino or negotiating the flickering complexities... — Gramophone Magazine, August 2023 More…

Oshima and Stroissnig certainly seem to have a clear and disturbing picture of the sonata’s emotional implications, which are incorporated into an interpretation of impressive dynamic thrust,... — Gramophone Magazine, February 2017 More…

there are flashes of extraordinary playing...Indeed, there is much to recommend it - the perfect tuning, poise and control that glide through the multitude of styles that Schnittke uses to evoke... — Gramophone Magazine, August 2014 More…

...Kristine Blaumane… is a technically fine player… Her passionate playing is heard to best effect in Barber's apprentice Sonata… — Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2008 More…