Gubaidulina - In croce

A quaternion may be a mathematical operation, but there's nothing calculated or contrived about Quaternion for four cellos (1996), which here receives its first recording. At its best – as it... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010More…

The bayan, the flexible Russian cousin of the accordion, has lately become fairly well-known in the West… Here the Trio Solotarev (three Italian bayan players, despite the name) displays the... — BBC Music Magazine, November 2004, 5 out of 5 starsMore…

By turns both ethereal and then confrontational, the work employs a vast range of tonal and instrumental effects, and the performance here by Daniele Roccato and Massimiliano Pitocco is impressive... — International Record Review, September 2013More…

Naxos are to be congratulated for contributing to the process. There is a certain steely cool about the music-making here, a tendency to avoid the disturbing excesses of introversion and extroversion... — Gramophone MagazineMore…

Sofia Gubaidulina's setting of St Francis of Assisi's Canticle of the Sun for cello, choir and percussion is among her most visionary utterances, the ardour of the choral writing perfectly counterpointed... — BBC Music Magazine, November 2004, 4 out of 5 starsMore…