Sollima

These duos for violin and cello are a smorgasbord of delights; the new works by Giovanni Sollima sit beautifully alongside scots folk tunes, Vivaldi sonatas and more. A timeless set. — BBC Music Magazine, May 2020, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Capuçon sheds fresh light on popular classics, and performers newer pieces by Sollima and Ducros with virtuosity and lyricism. — BBC Music Magazine, February 2018, 4 out of 5 stars More…

[Sollima] is a consummate performer-acrobat, whose fiery physicality no dizzying speed nor vaulting elaboration can challenge…if the G major is a gem of Corellian civility, flecked with Sollima’s... — BBC Music Magazine, July 2017, 5 out of 5 stars More…

What can a cellist achieve alone? A polyphonic, technicolour panorama in Christian-Pierre La Marca’s idiosyncratic tour through the distant and immediate musical past...Stand-out among the performances... — BBC Music Magazine, March 2021, 4 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 5 out of 5 stars (Recording) More…

Just when you think it can’t be more colourful or charismatic, Kadesha brings more joy, more physicality that is somehow simultaneously slapdash and highly finessed. He’s a violinist who you... — Gramophone Magazine, May 2024 More…

Ma's sound in this album has a rather lived-in quality, golden allure replaced by gritty articulacy. Physical exertion and goal-driven intensity give way to nonchalant calm. This works in a... — BBC Music Magazine, December 2015, 3 out of 5 stars More…

Popper’s Elfentanz zips by in a hummingbird whirr of iridescent colour and needlepoint precision: spectacular playing by any standards. And Nadia Boulanger would surely have enjoyed the neoclassical... — Gramophone Magazine, February 2018 More…

Whereas Bernstein embraced the music’s enhanced idiom with (literally) open arms, passionately embracing its full sonic potential, Brunello (No. 16) and Kremer (No. 14) create a sense of introspective... — BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2020, 5 out of 5 stars More…