Discography

„Clein’s performances are the album’s high points (the magic is particularly strong in Of Elutropia)…“
Gramophone Magazine Award 2024

„The facility, elegance and clarity with which she articulates the taxing solo passagework provide admirable justification for her approach…“

Robin Stowell/ The Strad, August 2020

„Clein performs the opening theme of the Largo with wonderful long-breathed fluency, which is matched by Conunova in her turn.“

Tim Homfrey/ The Strad, July 2019

„I suspect that this beautifully produced recital from Natalie Clein and Christian Ihle Hadland will be many listeners’ first encounter with the cello version [of Clarke’s Sonata] , and I strongly suspect that they’ll be as impressed by it as I was…The pair unerringly find the right atmosphere for each of the various miniatures by Vaughan Williams and Bridge.“

Gramophone Magazine, January 2019

„Undoubtedly the most approachable music in this fascinating programme is Ligeti’s Sonata, already a firmly established favourite amongst cellists. Clein’s performance is exemplary, bringing requisite warmth and tenderness to the opening ‘Dialogo’ and propelling the obsessive moto perpetuo semiquavers of the ‘Capriccio’ with tremendous energy and rhythmic drive.“

BBC Music Magazine, March 2017

„It is the light airiness of Natalie Clein’s approach that works so well here…she finds a golden timbre and fleet elegance, matched by Andrew Manze and the effervescent BBC Scottish forces….“

BBC Music Magazine, October 2014

„One of the most persuasive performances of [Schelomo] that I have heard. An outstanding release.“

Colin Anderson, International Record Review, July 2012

„An astonishing range of colours and the widest variety of expressive styles. I find it admirable how she’s able, in the studio, to maintain so much of the excitement and directness of live performance.“

Duncan Druce, Gramophone Magazine Editor’s Choice