Erwin Schulhoff: Violin Sonatas

�Tanja Becker-Benda offers absolutely stunning playing throughout this warmly recorded disc. She makes light work of the formidable technical challenges in the opening Allegro con fuoco of the Solo Sonata and brings an unexpected sense of desolation to the ensuing Andante sostenuto. Her exemplary partnership with Markus Becker reaps equally enthralling musical rewards in the other works.� --BBC Music Magazine, March 2011 *****

�Tanja Becker-Bender can muster both impressively full tone and a not inappropriate astringent edge� --Gramophone Magazine, March 2011

�she surfs the waves of Schulhoff's sparkling imagination with the deftest of touches...turn[ing] some of the most unpredictable and challenging violin works of the early 20th century into musical morsels of supreme naturalness.� --Classic FM Magazine, April 2011 ****

�There is some challenging music here for both players and it receives performances of the highest quality, as though this music were at the very centre of the standard repertoire instead of well beyond its fringes. Tanja Becker-Bender's tonal palette is wide, not shying away in the least from the occasional healthy dig into the strings; she seems totally at home with the material� --International Record Review, March 2011