PRESS 

HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE PRESS

 “Playing with intensity”
- Olean Times Herald, NY

 
Extraordinary sense of solace and hard-won transcendence at the coda, magnificently played by Ivanov and Antimova”
 
“Ivanov brings a finely differentiated array of expression to this music… produces a big, rich tone, his idiomatic fruity timbre and astringent edge bringing exciting bravura to the tearaway coda…Ivanov alternates virtuosity and rich lyric lines in a tour de force.”
- Gramophone, UK
 
Cellist Kalin Ivanov plays with impeccable intonation, idiomatically telling phrasing, and projects a gratifyingly large and variegated tone… he and he pianist Elena Antimova are always on the same wavelength… I can smell the rosin coming from Ivanov’s bow, but with enough space that full-throated tone of his instrument registers fully at the music’s louder moments. His balance with Antimova’s piano is fine. One can hear the subtlety of her touch, voicing, and pedaling. 
- Fanfare, USA

 

“Mr. Ivanov displayed solid, disciplined technique and a pure tone… A fine pianist, Ms. Antimova played brilliantly, with deep identification and riveting concentration.”

                                                                                                                                                    - New York Concert Review

“The duo [K. Ivanov and E. Antimova] brings the work to its conclusion with a robust degree of fiery abandon. …clean and full-bodied with splendid performances from start to finish.”
                                                             
                                                                                                                       - Music & Vision, UK