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"Four Stars ... (it's Perényi's) Ligeti that steals the show. Not surprisingly, Perényi shapes its Hungarian elements idiomatically ..." - BBC Music Magazine "... offers a chance to hear Hungarian cellist Miklós Perényi at his virtuosic best ... (he) has a warm, big-boned, springy tone and brings expressive variety to Britten's Suite No. 3 ..." - The Guardian "Four Stars ... in many ways, Perényi's playing has something of Rostropovich about it: muscular and expansive, with tightly disciplined drive ... Perényi concentrates on the sonorities of the instrument ... in his warm, old school playing that he manages to pull the threads of Britten, Rostropovich, his own musical heritage and the Bach suites together so minutely that it is impossible not to apprehend the point he is trying to make ..." - Gramophone Cellist Miklós Perényi presents Benjamin Britten’s Third Suite and J.S. Bach’s Suite No. 6, underlining the historical interconnection between the two. Britten wrote his cello suites for Rostropovich, inspired by hearing him playing the Bach suites. On this album, Bach’s last cello suite follows Britten’s and Perényi’s Bach dances with elegance and energy. The album concludes with a return to Hungary and Ligeti’s Cello Sonata, only released for publication in 1979.