CD, Bull, J (composer)

These works have sometimes been handled as trifles or decorative miniatures, but Iranian-American harpsichordist Mahan Esfahani treats them as profoundly expressive and introspective works.... — BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2018, 5 out of 5 stars More…

In The Bells she’s arguably a touch stiff…but there’s a structural steadfastness that generates a cumulative grandeur in all of the more extended works…All told, an agreeably stimulating anthology... — BBC Music Magazine, April 2019, 4 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 5 out of 5 stars (Recording) More…

Put aside your awareness of the accordion as ‘modern’, the gamba as ‘ancient’, and just listen. Their timbres, their ranges, their sonorities perfectly complement each other, as does these musicians’... — Gramophone Magazine, October 2018 More…