Browse: Aeon (label)

Xenakis composed just two pieces for solo cello, both fiercely remarkable in their own right. Nomos Alpha, from 1966, is an example of what he called symbolic music, in which the order of musical... — The Guardian, 25th January 2012, 3 out of 5 stars More…

The playing of the three artists is first-rate, and it is good that the longest and most inspired work, and the only one wherein we hear all of them playing together, is Schubert's Piano Trio... — International Record Review, March 2011 More…

singing her native French, she treats the Berlioz and Britten with a light touch...Gillet and her conductor, Paul Daniel, are at their nest in a well-paced 'Le spectre de la rose', which captures... — Gramophone Magazine, March 2012 More…

The highlights come with two major works for cello on the second disc. Immer makes inventive play with non-standard tuning in music whose melodic contours evince subtle overtones of folk music.... — Gramophone Magazine, August 2017 More…

The first thing that strikes you is the bright, full sound of Christian Favre's piano at the start of the Chausson, and the excellent recorded sound generally adds to the brilliance and persuasiveness... — Gramophone Magazine, July 2006 More…

The most impressive works here are the earliest and most recent – Yell and Times, the first very much concerned with planes of sound, with dense textural layers sliding over each other, the later... — The Guardian, 30th June 2011, 4 out of 5 stars More…