‘What a strikingly inventive work the D minor Sonata is, particularly when played with such passion, purity of tone and poignancy as it is on this disc … a revelatory programme, performed with ra ...
‘You're unlikely to find more sympathetic and committed performances than these: Tanja Becker-Bender's phrasing of Respighi's long lines and her range and subtlety of colour give both Sonatas every ch ...
‘The young Ottorino Respighi, a contemporary of Puccini, looked north over the Alps for his musical influences, writing firmly in the Austro-German tradition and with an astonishingly assured Brahmsi ...