Bridge’s Cello Sonata incline more to rhapsody than rhetoric, and draws particularly heartfelt playing from Clein and Hadland in the lingeringly regretful opening of the second movement…[The Vaughan Williams arrangements] elicit from Clein and Hadland a vein of poised, eloquent poetry, and in the concluding ‘as I walked over London Bridge’ a spark sense of mischief.

I suspect that this beautifully produced recital from Natalie Clein and Christian Ihle Hadland will be many listeners’ first encounter with the cello version [of Clarke’s Sonata] , and I strongly suspect that they’ll be as impressed by it as I was…The pair unerringly find the right atmosphere for each of the various miniatures by Vaughan Williams and Bridge.

Hyperion’s recording is superbly balanced

The discovery is the Viola Sonata by the pioneering Rebecca Clarke, composed 100 years ago, which they perform in the composer’s own cello arrangement, capturing its restless, rhapsodic sweep. Clarke’s work is only beginning to be properly evaluated, and it stands up here to what follows it.