Analekta

From the very first bars of Saint-Saens's First Cello Concerto you sense that this disc is going to be exhilarating and rewarding. The performers launch the concerto with terrific passion and... — Gramophone Magazine, March 2013 More…

MacLaine’s performance of these Canadian works is powerful and expressive. The instrument seems to be an extension of her personality in these pieces, each of which offers new and rather interesting... — Fanfare, Nov/Dec 2022 More…

the Cecilia prove to be compelling advocates. They find a fine balance between the composer’s skittish qualities and his tenderer side, resulting in notably open-hearted readings. Their tremolos…seem... — Gramophone Magazine, February 2016 More…

Although Shelley has the strings create a perfectly smooth surface in the slow introduction to Schumann’s Second...the dotted rhythms of the un poco più vivace (at 1'54") instantly shatter that... — Gramophone Magazine, March 2022 More…

There’s more than a whiff of Brahms in Bruch’s wistful, Romantic pieces for clarinet trio, also written late in the composer’s life. Its lyricism is gracefully expressed by the Philon Trio. — BBC Music Magazine, June 2020, 4 out of 5 stars More…

[Ginastera] Wan rises to the occasion in this performance, bringing the same smoothness we hear in the Serenade. His poise in the opening solo cadenza (which lasts for 6:29) stresses its musicality... — Fanfare, May/June 2021 More…

[Montero’s] playing is free-spirited, fire-centred and uninhibitedly expressive, with a sense of rhetoric and flexibility that suggests the Romantic era itself: you can almost see the young... — BBC Music Magazine, September 2020, 4 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 3 out of 5 stars (Recording) More…