Christian Ihle Hadland

Cecilia Zilliacus is more than up to the challenge. Her lightly-worn virtuosity and crystalline phrasing ensures nothing feels forced in the First Sonata...With everything captured in superb... — BBC Music Magazine, June 2023, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Youthful passion occasionally pushes him to stylistic excess...but for most of the time he’s beauty incarnate and in perfect step with his composers’ various voices. He’s also blessed with a... — BBC Music Magazine, May 2021, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Dalene and Hadland make an excellent duo – equal partners who bounce ideas off one another with oodles of vitality. — BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2023, 4 out of 5 stars More…

They are especially strong advocates of Poulenc’s Cello Sonata, admirably negotiating the rapid changes of direction in the outer movements, the first flitting moth-like between ideas and the... — BBC Music Magazine, November 2023, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Brantelid's feverish energy, tonal and textural range add something new. The Andante has a glistening innocence, while the sense of rough, spontaneous dance in the finale pulls the music closer... — BBC Music Magazine, Awards Issue 2015, 5 out of 5 stars More…

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... — BBC Music Magazine, March 2019, 4 out of 5 stars More…

The Akademi winds perform these well-known works with ease and nice interpretations. Pianist Christian Hadland is at the top of his game, while one notices that the period instruments are all... — Fanfare, Jul/Aug 2020 More…