Vierne & Franck: Violin Sonatas

GRAMOPHONE AWARD NOMINATION 2019 TOP THREE - Chamber

"Superb playing and ravishing engineering intertwine here to stunning effect. It's a modern set-up - Ibragimova on a 1775 Anselmo Bellosio strung with metal, with Tiberghien on a very beautiful and relatively new Steinway D - and it serves as a reminder that you don't necessarily need period instruments to bring a lightness and air-filled delineation to these densely textured late-Romantic works." - Gramophone Editor's Choice, March 2019

"This is simply superb in every way…Ibragimova and Cédric Tiberghien are typically outstanding throughout, playing with exceptional control without ever forsaking spontaneity…Make no mistake,..." BBC Music Award Finalist 2020

"Neither treads on the other's toes; equally true when they're driving the music hard and fast, as in Vierne's opening allegro or the much more familiar sonata by César Franck. Ibragimova excels at sweeping along, hotly feeling every bar on every track, from the mix of whispered lyricism and incendiary blaze in Ysaÿe's Poème élégiaque to the delicate pianissmo high-wire act of Lili Boulanger's Nocturne, the most delectable of encores. What a pleasure dome this album is." The Times