ECM

Lonquich's playing is at one with the thinking of both composers...while the piano sound is on a par with ECM's best...this disc is recommended to all devotees of the ambiguity which informs... — International Record Review, April 2011 More…

Armenia, in Mansurian's vision, is like the original cradle of sound. The seamless fusion of sacred and folk influences, not displayed as 'local colour' but wholly absorbed into the music's... — BBC Music Magazine, July 2014, 4 out of 5 stars More…

…Kurtág's Kafka-Fragmente of 1985-86 seems the archetypal late 20th-century song-cycle. The musical language, reduced to shards and splinters, has roots from Bach to Webern, via Schumann…... — BBC Music Magazine, April 2006, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Ever cince Trio Mediaeval's inception in 1997 their repertoire has included music from folk traditions, but this is, I believe, their first CD consisting entirely of arrangements of traditional... — BBC Music Magazine, February 2008, 4 out of 5 stars More…

The Russian-born pianist, who is also a novelist, adorns this recording with eclectic literary musings that at first seem an indulgent collision of references and philosophical assertion...Yet... — Sunday Times, 21st October 2012 More…