The April 2019 Issue of Gramophone Magazine reviews A Tribute To Danny Granados in their Sounds of America section:
“This recording, made in 2011 with members of the HSO, gives an idea of just how superbly gifted a musician [Danny] Granados was. I was completely bowled over by this polished and poetic recording of Brahms’s Clarinet Quintet. It’s not only Granados’s liquid tone that impresses but his judicious use of rubato – his entrance so softly rhapsodic – as well as the way he integrates himself into the ensemble so he never sticks out in a soloistic way. The quartet are marvellous, too. … With its strong Eastern European accent, Osvaldo Golijov’s ‘Lullaby and Doina’ serves as a clever and effective segue to Astor Piazzolla’s tangos. Again, Granados is in superb form. … The [Piazzolla] arrangements are imaginative, and the interpretations – fierce yet refined – are true to the spirit of tango nuevo. This is a moving tribute as well as a satisfying programme. The Brahms is really quite special.”
—Andrew Farach-Colton, Gramophone
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