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“Garth Knox, more usually renowned as a viola player, gives an enticingly mixed programme of music for his instrument’s sweet-voiced cousin, the viola d’amore, with and without Agnès Vesterman’s expressive cello. He opens with his own duo, Malor me bat (2004), a colourful fantasy based on a 15th-century song. Two contemporary Swiss pieces for viola d’amore alone explore unusual tunings of its seven bowed and seven resonating strings. Roland Moser’s Manners of Speaking (2006) is full of harmonics and other colouristic effects, while Klaus Huber’s ... Plainte... (1990), for Luigi Nono, is all isolated but intense gesture. Tobias Hume’s A Pavin (1605) weaves a melancholic spell, Attilio Ariosti’s Prima Lezione (1720) has rococo elegance and Knox’s version of Marin Marais’s Les Folies d’Espagne is exhilaratingly climactic.” Sunday Times, 8th June 2008 ***

“Quite simply one of the most outstandingly magical discs I have heard. From the very first notes one is totally captivated by the fantastic richness of the sound produced by the combination of the viola d'amore and the cello.” Gramophone Magazine, September 2008