Browse: Walton - Passacaglia for solo cello

This excellent Hyperion issue brings together a wide-ranging group of Walton's chamber works, from his earliest major work, the Piano Quartet, originally written when he was 16, to his last instrumental... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 More…

Ever the scholar, he takes a deep dive into Britten’s Third Suite…The performance itself digs deep. This is, as he says, a meditation on mortality. Isserlis makes it huge, and terrifying, fired... — BBC Music Magazine, December 2021, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Walton's Cello Concerto is like a bottle of vintage wine from the composer's home on the Italian island of Ischia… its warmth, finesse and wry serenity are qualities that appeal all the more... — BBC Music Magazine, June 2009, 5 out of 5 stars More…

These recordings were all captured live at the Kronberg Cello Festival in 2007, the year of Mstislav Rostropovich's death, and the pieces were either written for him, premiered by him or… composed... — BBC Music Magazine, September 2008, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Heupel’s interpretation of [Penderecki’s Per Slava] is especially convincing, laying bare the music’s fissured surfaces while maintaining its overall formal shape…He also manages to capture the... — Gramophone Magazine, October 2017 More…

there is much to admire in Poltera's immense technical command and forthright technical command and forthright expressiveness, although finessed light and shade...are sometimes in rather short... — BBC Music Magazine, February 2015, 3 out of 5 stars More…

it would be hard to imagine a more satisfying interpreter than Julian Lloyd Webber — Sunday Times, 3 out of 5 stars More…