Neue CD "Songs of Solitude"

" Togawa präsentiert bei aller Innenschau eine solche Fülle an Farbigkeiten, dynamischen Schattierungen, melodischem Tröstungen, auch an architektonischen Sinn für die verschiedenen meist zwischen drei und fünf Minuten dauernden musikalischen Nachdenklichkeiten und Aufmunterungen, dass man mit wachsender Neugier von Stück zu Stück hört."

Harald Eggebrecht, Süddeutsche Zeitung, 01.03.2021

CD-Besprechungen

»In a precisely co-ordinated performance with the Armenian pianist Lilit Grigoryan Hiyoli Togawa concludes her successful album with Kalivoda’s “Six Nocturnes” for viola and piano. Once again the music becomes an experience at first hand, just as if you would listen to the two musicians in the informal atmosphere of the family circle.« (rbb Kulturradio)

»Although Hiyoli Togawa plays this music in a way that is romantic and sensual, she is not unstinting in energy and vivacity. Her instrument has a good clean sound and is adaptable as regards the respective moods. She excels at entering into an entertaining dialogue with the piano.«  (MDR Klassik)

»An amazing discovery!« (WDR3 TonArt)

»Hiyoli Togawa’s and Lilit Grigoryan’s playing is characterised by a finely co-ordinated pulse … No matter whether the music is graceful, of virtuoso cheerfulness or powerful – they handle everything with remarkable ease.«  (Klassik Heute)