Aeon

Tedi Papavrami, while not attempting to sound like Sarasate, adopts something of his graceful manner; his alert, lively approach is just right for conveying the music's inventive, often improvisatory... — Gramophone Magazine, October 2010 More…

everything on these discs gives clear evidence of the most scrupulous preparation, a constant search for the intrinsic features of each individual piece. Not only that but the recorded sound... — Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2011 More…

the album's title-work by Rebecca Saunders is an interior monologue which, thanks to Ballon's advocacy, seems to bypass the executant and travel deep within the mind and body of the instrument:... — Gramophone Magazine, February 2016 More…

The expressive badinage between players, the enthusiastic rough and tumble in the opening Allegro with just a smidgen of tonal darkening for the second subject, not to mention the occasional... — Gramophone Magazine, December 2014 More…

Both text and music are very strange [of Fumeux fume par fumée], with the composition exploring harmonies and deep sonorities rarely encountered in that period. — International Record Review, April 2011 More…

Michel Galante leads the New York-based Argento Chamber Ensemble in Tristan Murail's highly evocative sound pictures of winter scenes. — Gramophone Magazine, January 2010 More…