It's been half a year since we released our second album Lectures Différentes! This CD was our debut on Linn Records and we celebrated it with the first world recording of the piece that gives its name to the album - Lectures Différentes, by Peter Eötvös - and works by Stravinsky, Haydn and Pérez-Villegas. We would like to thank you for the great reception of the disc, and that is why today we are very excited to share with you the reviews that the specialized magazines have dedicated to us:

'Everything works perfectly and one is sometimes made to believe that an eighteenth-century wind ensemble is playing.'

Musikzen

'A refreshing and innovative result full of delicate nuances. A great demonstration of what subtle tones one can conjure from the saxophone.'

CultuurPakt

Melómano de Oro: 'These Lectures différentes represent not only the hallmark of the Kebyart Ensemble, but also a unique scenic and musical experience of immeasurable quality.'

Melómano

CD Tipp 'Stravinsky and Haydn sound complete and new - and as a bonus track Leonard Cohen dances the waltz.'

Der Tagesspiegel

'... the title piece "Lectures différentes" comes from Peter Eötvös - which presents current modernism in the most beautiful and dazzling colours.'

Rondo

'It's their debut recording and it's a good one. They've called it Lectures différentes after the piece by Peter Eötvös in its first recording, a highlight alongside their effective arrangements ...'

BBC Radio 3 'Record Review'

'Lectures différentes is a high-quality album. Or, at least, it is the gateway to the world recording market of a saxophone quartet that has come to stay in the division of honor of European chamber music. Almost nothing.'

440 Clàssica Magazine

'The strength of their ensemble playing is perhaps even more apparent in the transcriptions on this album. For example, they uncover harmonies in Stravinsky and Haydn in an unprecedented way.'

De Standaard

'Kebyart makes full use of the saxophone’s tonal and technical possibilities ... the transparent and colorful, extremely lean and agile playing of the four musicians makes for an attractive and exquisite CD.'

Pizzicato

'An album that proposes a symbiosis of sound worlds from juxtapositions and imaginative styles; but that really seduces clearly by the musical quality of these young musicians in the refinement of the attacks, the nobility and singability of the phrasing and the reliefs in the balances, reinforcing the impression of homogeneity and harmonic complexity.'

Revista Musical Catalana

What do they say about Lectures Différentes?