KODÁLY: Cello Sonata op 8
Lionel Handy, cello, Thelma Handy, violin & Nigel Clayton, piano
plus Sonata op 4; Duo op 7
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Review excerpts
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Your CD represents high level playing. Bravo and keep going. |
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| —János Starker (September 2011) |
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Apart from the sheer technical security and virtuosity of his playing, Handy brings a virile, tight-muscled, lithe-limbed, sinewy strength to his reading that accentuates the score’s edgy energy. The moments of lyrical repose—and there are many, for this is still, at heart, a very romantic work—are thereby all the more set off in relief and repose. |
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| —Jerry Dubins, Fanfare (37:3, Jan/Feb 2014)
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While I’m now fairly well-acquainted with Lionel’s playing […] this is my first time encountering his violinist sister Thelma, and I have to say I am mightily impressed. She has an amazing technique and a gorgeous tone to match, which she draws out like spun gold… |
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| —Jerry Dubins, Fanfare (37:3, Jan/Feb 2014)
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Cadenza’s recording could not have captured these three artists any better. Very strongly recommended. |
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| —Jerry Dubins, Fanfare (37:3, Jan/Feb 2014)
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The music requires the cellist to cover the instrument’s entire range from the highest delicate tones to the strongest bass notes, and Handy has no trouble filling the bill. Natalie Clein plays it on a 2010 Hyperion disc, but I don’t think her virtuosity is quite up to the level of Handy’s. |
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| —Maria Nockin, Fanfare (37:3, Jan/Feb 2014)
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As a whole, I find the recording by the Handys and Nigel Clayton to be an excellent 21st-century rendition of Kodály’s most important compositions. |
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| —Maria Nockin, Fanfare (37:3, Jan/Feb 2014)
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[Lionel Handy] shows himself to be a superb solo performer … these are colorful and imaginative performances, technically assured [and] expert in their sense of ensemble… |
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| —Peter J. Rabinowitz, Fanfare (37:3, Jan/Feb 2014)
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Handy’s assurance, both technical and interpretive, is most impressive […] This performance of Kodály’s op 8 Sonata shows him to be a well organised player who enters wholeheartedly into the composer’s passionate idiom. |
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| —Guy Aron, MusicWeb International (November 2011)
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The Handys are very well-matched tonally … Their interplay is unselfish, each receding into the background when the other has the melodic interest … The recording is highly successful, achieving a vivid sound picture without any feeling of artificiality. |
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| —Guy Aron, MusicWeb International (November 2011)
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The pair create an impressive sound of almost orchestral sonority, and conjure up real dramatic tension in the Adagio. Both instruments are sensitively recorded and balance is excellent. |
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| —Janet Banks, The Strad (October 2011)
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Handy’s partnership with pianist Nigel Clayton in the op 4 Sonata draws some inspired playing … the spirited folk rhythms […] are infectiously delivered. |
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| —Janet Banks, The Strad (October 2011)
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