Browse: Jirí Bárta (cello)

Kodály's Solo Cello Sonata is among the strongest, most searching of all his works, arguably the finest of all works for unaccompanied cello since Bach's suites, and here it receives a performance... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 More…

…Jirí Bárta… plays with a warm, unselfconscious expressiveness that connects with all three works, and the Prague Philharmonia is with him every step of the way. — Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2009 More…

The string quintets emerge as near-orchestral giants, hard to categorise...The finest performance here is undoubtedly the perfectly-integrated sound of piano (Olga Vinokur, superlative) and string... — BBC Music Magazine, June 2015, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Very often, "crossover" means musicians talking (or singing, or playing) past each other. This is something rather different, and the tone is set by the appearance of the solo cello playing the... — Gramophone Magazine, December 2010 More…