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It takes remarkable powers of concentration for a performer to sustain nearly an hour of solo cello music without any support from an accompanying instrument. In this formidable sequence of... — Gramophone Magazine, December 2011 More…

Kobrin's beauty of tone is apparent throughout, seemingly incapable of an ugly forced sonority even amidst the densest of writing. There are passages of cantabile which I have rarely heard rendered... — International Record Review, December 2010 More…

…this unusual version of the Goldberg Variations… but for a double-reed quartet of two oboes, cor anglias and bassoon… gave a unified sonority and texture while encompassing the entire pitch-range... — BBC Music Magazine, December 2007, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Saxel's delicately nuanced playing, captured in a warm but clear sound, certainly conveys both the intimacy and longing that epitomise his chosen character pieces...in On an Overgrown Path Saxel... — BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2010, 3 out of 5 stars More…

Recorded with a clarity that recalls Pollini's classic 1970s account for DG, Bogdanova keeps a tight rein on Chopin's poetic fantasy, making each etude a microcosm of sequential ingenuity. — BBC Music Magazine, June 2015, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Maxwell Davies's piece is among his deftest and most affecting miniatures, while James Macmillan's 11-minute solo is an eloquent memorial to the dead of 9/11 that takes the oboe to its limits... — Gramophone Magazine, November 2011 More…