CD, Gubaidulina (composer)

Hammond casts her net with a flairfulness and acuity ‘rich in contrast’ (to purloin Sofia Gubaidulina’s description of her 1963 Chaconne which, under Hammond’s exhilaratingly determined fingers,... — BBC Music Magazine, April 2021, 4 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 5 out of 5 stars (Performance) More…

...a solid and satisfying five-hour survey. — Choir & Organ, March 2021, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Brett Dean’s Voices of Angels is a very substantial work, making his customary detailed sonic investigations into the ensemble’s possible combinations of instruments, and doing so with a tremendous... — Gramophone Magazine, October 2020 More…

A handy collection of most of Sofia Gubaidulina's important works for the accordion — BBC Music Magazine, March 2012 More…

The virtuoso performance given Sofia Gubaidulina’s early Chaconne (1962) achieves a terrifying intensity…Gulyak also makes a strong case for the rarely heard Sarabande and Chaconne from Handel’s... — Gramophone Magazine, January 2018 More…

…Gubaidulina's… music needs performers prepared to lavish endless care on producing minute shadings of timbre. And of course it needs recording engineers who will take equal care in capturing... — BBC Music Magazine, April 2007, 4 out of 5 stars More…