Chamber, Sonatas, Cello Sonatas, Rubinstein, A (composer)

…Sonata No. 1 in D major is well-nigh irresistible, with memorable melodies and a heroic piano part sweeping all before it. In Jirí Bárta's hands it speaks to us across the centuries with a... — BBC Music Magazine, June 2009, 4 out of 5 starsMore…

Mun’s playing is fastidious and elegant to a fault, a very far cry indeed from the high-voltage, soul-searching earthiness of his hero [Casals]. Comparisons aside, though, the recital reveals... — BBC Music Magazine, February 2019, 3 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 4 out of 5 stars (Recording)More…

With a wonderfully warm, steady tone, Denmark's great cellist is glorious in Beethoven's Op. 69 Sonata and not far behind in Brahms. Only Stravinsky's Suite Italienne is less pleasing. — BBC Music Magazine, March 2015, 4 out of 5 starsMore…

Gert von Bulow gives solid performances, but his style is better suited to the more acerbic Prokofiev. The Rachmaninov, especially the elegiac Andante, doesn’t fully capture the fluid Romantic... — BBC Music Magazine, March 2020, 3 out of 5 starsMore…