Marko Ylönen

"One imagines that Nordgren would have been thrilled by the playing of the Kokkola Quartet and their guests."

"If you are sympathetic to large-scale Shostakovich (in works like the Eighth and Eleventh Symphonies), you will probably enjoy this CD as much as I did, although in the Third Symphony, as in the Second, I wonder whether he doesn't overwork his material just that bit too much."