Browse: CD, Hosokawa (composer)

Kodama is a subtle and poetic soloist in both works, in control of a particularly beautiful range of quiet sonorities in the Hosokawa and matching that, in the Mozart, with ‘pouring-oil’ passagework... — BBC Music Magazine, May 2021, 4 out of 5 stars More…

The individual variations, specially commissioned from contemporary composers and played here en suite, share an aroma of freshness due to their unfamiliarity. They also elicit from Buchbinder... — Gramophone Magazine, June 2020 More…

The flute-and-guitar repertoire may be small but one cannot say it doesn't cater for all tastes...[the Shankar] is mesmerising and, like the programme as a whole, a kaleidoscope of infinite colours... — Gramophone Magazine, December 2013 More…

Exquisite static lines overlay terrifying, tectonic bass drum thwacks in Meditation — to the Victims of Tsunami 3.11, while in Nach dem Sturm two sopranos sing a Hesse poem depicting storm-battered... — Sunday Times, 1st July 2018 More…

All of the works are compelling, and their juxtaposition with Bach is highly effective. This would be a powerful concert programme, a singular journey ideally heard alone and in the dark, which... — Gramophone Magazine, August 2021 More…

Forget other recordings of Debussy's Etudes. Not that this is better than Gieseking, Pollini, Uchida, Bavouzet and the rest - it's merely that such comparisons are redundant...Kodama brings a... — BBC Music Magazine, June 2017, 4 out of 5 stars More…