MusicWeb International

What an impressive disc this is! None of the music is exactly ‘rare’ but the four violin sonatas combined here make for a fascinating and intelligent programme creating interesting contrasts and juxtapositions in the listener’s mind. Then there is the playing which is just superb. Again intelligent springs to mind from both violinist Friederike Starkloff and pianist Endri Nini but to achieve their musical and expressive goals both players have formidable techniques and a willingness to play at the expressive extremes of their instruments… Every single aspect of this release is absolutely top drawer…

CD-Review “Traum und Trauma” by Nick Barnard, July 10, 2024

das Orchester

Claude Debussy: Here, the fantastic violin-piano duo works its magic with the finest, iridescent sounds, the most delicate nuances and a wide range of expression – just as the composer probably dreamed of for his musical universe.

CD-Review “Traum und Trauma” by Daniel Knödler, September 2024

Radio Bremen Zwei

A great chamber music CD with two brilliant performers and an exciting repertoire away from the mainstream – compliments!

CD-Review “Traum und Trauma” by Wilfried Schäper in the broadcast Klassikwelt, June 16, 2024

Nord-West Zeitung

In Beethoven’s Gassenhauer-Trio, as well as in the following Violin Sonata in A major by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, pianist Endri Nini shows himself to be a great musical nuance giver and great virtuoso co-creator… A roaringly accentuated sound celebration with foaming cascades in the piano and an unpretentious violinist Friederike Starkloff who rises above every technical hurdle. A real chamber music moment of glory.

Concert Review by Volkmar Stickan, June 21, 2024

American Record Guide

These two musicians [Antoaneta Emanuilova and Endri Nini] work so well together that their performance matches the best I have heard over these many years. Their balances of phrasing and volume bring out the conversational aspect of this remarkable romantic music in a highly enjoyable and intimate way.

CD-Review “Momentum” by Devin Moore, issue January/February 2023

NDR Kultur

…the duo finds a delicate approach towards the works [Beethoven, Brahms and Schmann], which reveals also a certain vulnerability and sensibility…Antoaneta Emanuilova and Endri Nini energetically throw themselves into this pulsating flow of music, never losing their attention to every detail.

CD-Review “Momentum” by Friederike Westerhaus, September 22, 2022

radio3

Friederike Starkloff and Endri Nini create these jagged psyches with such intensity and at the same time very delicately and unobtrusively that one is completely drawn into not only the musical world of these sonatas, but into the whole mood or rather ‘moodiness’ of a time, a world.

Fanny Tanck presents the album “Traum und Trauma” in her programme Meine Musik from 03 May 2024.

Pizzicato

– The CD received the Supersonic Award from Pizzicato

Starkloff and Nini’s interpretations present the pieces with the exciting gesture inherent in them.

CD-Review “Traum und Trauma” by Uwe Krisch, May 8, 2024

Fränkische Nachrichten

Starkloff and Nini make this music [Mozart, Debussy, Schulhoff and Antheil] shine, scream, cry, laugh – and amaze the audience.

Concert Review by Carsten Klomp, September 27, 2023

radio3 Meine Musik

This really is an album that is very demanding but also picks up on current emotional worlds. In times of complex conflicts and wars, the indescribable becomes music…

CD-Review “Traum und Trauma” by Kamilla Kaiser, July 11, 2024