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 are those works which revel in the full potential of the solo instrument. One such is Ligeti’s powerful 1953 solo sonata...La Marca’s is a consummate reading.

La Marca is unfailingly lyrical, stylish and thought through, whether giving his romantic colours full rein through the long lines, portamentos and vibrato of Chaplin’s ‘Smile’ or bounding smartly between the various high-speed pizzicato and bowing techniques required by Sollima’s Lamentatio...I fail to see how a listen will leave you anything other than newly captivated by La Marca as a cellist and allround musician, and I’m already looking forward to seeing what he and Naïve do together next.