(Trout) ‘this account has marvelous detail … that might have gone unnoticed in other versions: first movement is very vibrantly played, while the second allows complete contrast, gently lyrical’(Penguin Guide 3 stars) (Shafran) ‘I love his playing. Even at 12 years old. I was immediately entranced; so elegant, so free – and so different from anything I’d encountered before. I think it is his individuality that attracts me still; a free spirit, like a Russian folksinger whose voice happens to be a cello’ (Stephen Isserlis)
