An important release which again demonstrates Steven Isserlis’s deep commitment to the music of John Tavener. The realization of the album is movingly detailed in a booklet note which provides an eloquent counterpoint and commentary to the performances.
‘This beautifully recorded disc is enriched enormously by Steven Isserlis’s very personal booklet notes—it is very important to have this kind of testimony, and makes of this release a genuinely histo ...
BBC Music Magazine
‘I found this performance [of Preces and Responses] highly effective, beautifully played and recorded. The stories in the notes are touching; the interwoven history of the cellist, the composer and th ...
BBC Music Magazine‘I found this performance [of Preces and Responses] highly effective, beautifully played and recorded. The stories in the notes are touching; the interwoven history of the cellist, the composer and th ...