Browse: Kodály - Sonata for Solo Cello, Op. 8

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…

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…

Müller-Schott ends this formidable unaccompanied recital with Pablo Casals’s Song of the Birds, played with the intense focus, the sense of line and the gleaming purity of tone that characterises... — Gramophone Magazine, March 2020 More…

The recordings…were for a live audience so silent that these could be labelled ‘studio’ events. And the selection here, released for the first time, testify both to his versatility and his excellence... — BBC Music Magazine, June 2020, 5 out of 5 stars More…

In this imaginative recital, the French cellist Astrig Siranossian honours her Armenian heritage...Siranossian’s note implies that she plays this 1915 work as a kind of memorial to the Armenian... — BBC Music Magazine, December 2022, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Capuçon gives me practically everything I could want in a performance of [the Kodály] – narrative sweep, vibrant colour and rhythmic vitality as well as a wealth of soulful expressive detail,... — Gramophone Magazine, December 2021 More…

It’s impossible not to find solace in [the Bach Sarabande's] ineluctable harmonic logic, and impossible not to be profoundly moved by Wispelwey’s self-effacing reading, a performance heavy with... — BBC Music Magazine, December 2023, 4 out of 5 stars More…

...the compelling reason for acquiring this disc...is Clein's magnificent account of the Solo Sonata, Op. 8...Clein's depth of tone makes an immediate impact on this well-engineered recording...A... — BBC Music Magazine, July 2010, 5 out of 5 stars More…