Browse: Sollima (composer)

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…

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…

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…

One of the most eclectic (and electrifying) solo projects to emerge from lockdown, this unaccompanied recital sees Croisé extracting every possible sonority from his instrument without ever sounding... — Katherine Cooper, Presto Music, August 2021 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…

[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…