CD, Skalkottas (composer)

Ramou navigates her way through these sometimes knotty scores, which she clearly knows inside-out, with consummate musicianship. The piano tone is warm and full although the over-resonant acoustic... — Gramophone Magazine, October 2019More…

Trio Gaspard has a chameleon-like ability to adapt to the widely varying styles of each composer: Mendelssohn’s stately poise, Juon’s passionate mysticism, and Skalkottas’s spikiness. If future... — Fanfare, Jan/Feb 2024More…

These 20th-century works for violin and cello are beautifully programmed and transition seamlessly. The playing is intuitive and spirited, despite an overarching melancholic mood. — BBC Music Magazine, November 2020, 4 out of 5 starsMore…

Skalkottas’s scoring – needing far more players than the 10 required in his Third Piano Concerto (BIS, 3/05; Paladino, 5/20) – is miraculously clear, but required Brabbins and the London Philharmonic’s... — Gramophone Magazine, July 2023More…

An attractive sequence of folk-inflected works by Georgian, Armenian, Greek, Hungarian and British-born composers in imaginative arrangements for solo cello and string orchestra by Alessio Pianelli...strongly... — BBC Music Magazine, June 2021, 4 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 5 out of 5 stars (Recording)More…