DISCOGRAPHY

Golijov says: “Perhaps the greatest joy I know in music is telepathy between composer and performer. I am beginning to get used to it when I experience it with life-long collaborators who instantly understand the music I only understand myself after months of working on it. But I am startled when telepathy happens with a musician I have just met. This is what happened with Maja: No need for words to explain anything. Maja understands Azul better than I understand it myself. This gives me a great sense of relief. I know I don’t need to be present for my music to live in the world. 

The Saint-Saëns concerto shines in new colors in a vital and particularly flexible interpretation. Bogdanovic’s enchantingly lyrical but always excitedly communicative playing is in constant dialogue with the orchestra. Even in the Lalo concerto, this results in a fine performance full of style and substance – a masterstroke, considering how many great interpreters have already shipwrecked in this work.
Pizzicato​

"This disc leaves the impression of having observed landscapes from all over the world."
Classica
The golden couple Bogdanović and Rowland. Adventurous declaration of love for violin and cello.
Luister

Maria Belooussova offers sensitive and idiomatic playing with a sure feel for rubato. Maja Bogdanović likewise brings eloquence and fervour to the flowing melodies in the opening Allegro.Rachmaninoff’s melodramatic and passionate Sonata needs no introduction, and the artists here revel in the brooding opening, the gloriously honeyed Andante and the fiery concluding Allegro. With such a mammoth piano part, the cello is all but consigned to a subsidiary role in the face of the pianist’s virtuosity.
The Strad

The performances are glowing, compelling and raw. A musical world in which you can disappear as a listener.
NRC

Encounter brings together two towering works of contemporary chamber music that speak across cultures, histories, and inner worlds. Osvaldo Golijov’s The Dreams and Prayers of Isaac the Blind and Pēteris Vasks’ String Quartet No. 6 arise from profoundly different traditions — Jewish mysticism and Baltic spirituality — yet meet in a shared search for truth, memory, and transcendence. Both works are intensely personal, rooted in lived experience and belief, and animated by music’s power to give voice to what lies beyond words: longing, suffering, hope, and illumination. In this recording, these worlds do not merely coexist; they listen to, reflect, and transform one another.

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Maciej Tworek, Maja Bogdanović, Danjulo Ishizaka, Polish Sinfonia Iuventus Orchestra, Krzysztof Penderecki

Acclaimed composer Osvaldo Golijov’s anticipated new album traces a throughline in his creative life: friendship, hope, memory, and faith as lived through music. Exquisitely rendered by Arethusa Quartet, Animato Quartet, Barry Shiffman, and Nicholas Schwartz, the album paints unforgettable images from Golijov’s living, ongoing journey, including a musical letter to late violinist Geoff Nuttall, showing a composer deeply engaged with belief, reflection, and connection. The album reaffirms Golijov’s commitment to chamber music as a space for human connection, where devotion, loss and renewal live on through sound.