Portuguese virtuosos Monteiro and Santos, captured in opulent sound, hurl themselves into the virtuoso fray where appropriate, steering the music’s sometimes meandering course with a firm rudder.

Ecstatic raptures, whether quasi-oriental or otherwise, is a good description of these radiant and inspiring performances by Bruno Monteiro and João Santos...The nuanced phrasing and tonal refinement he brings to these pieces in sympathetic partnership with João Santos illuminate the music from within in a way that, for this listener, has made a deep and lasting impression. Very strongly recommended.

All these pieces are given very good performances by the excellent duo of Portuguese violinist Bruno Monteiro, and pianist João Paulo Santos. They enjoy the exotic colours and indulge the luscious harmonies in both the three Mythes and the Sonata.

João Paulo Santos is no mere accompanist, and he proves himself fully capable of tackling the three difficult movements of the work. Bruno Monteiro has just the right tone for this music, as he vividly paints these mythological stories for us.a project of real importance and wide musical appeal.

The performances are uniformly excellent, as is the recording. Here is a very highly desirable and recommended issue, one of the most significant to have been released in recent years with regard towards a completion of this wonderful composer's music being made available on compact disc. It is, therefore, strongly recommended.

Monteiro is a gifted violinst, of that one can have no doubt, and he is admirably partnered by Joao Paulo Santos, the result being an eminently recommendable issue which in our opinion has no equal. A very strongly recommended issue.

This generous set of Szymanowski´s complete music for violin and piano by Bruno Monteiro and João Paulo Santos, is of remarkable fidelity, accurately identifying the distinctive phases of the romanticism, symbolism and nationalism, keeping the linearity when the music demands...a definitive Szymanowski.

Bruno Monteiro and João Paulo Santos really play as an ensemble, and face the highly technical obstacles on both instruments - and in the case of Szymanowski, it cannot be said that the pianist simply accompanies the violinist...In the Nocturne and Tarantella Op. 28, a work technically and musically very demanding, the performers are fully up to the demands.

Bruno Monteiro and João Paulo Santos are at ease in the repertoire...they share the same vision on Szymanowsk's music – its richness, demand and history...[they] enter now in the exclusive group of the great interperters of his music.

Monteiro’s playing on this new recording is particularly effective in escalating the mood of Opus 30 (Myths) beyond the plane of mere mortals. Highly absorbing CD, making a strong case that this music deserves more attention when violinists are planning their recital programs.

Two excellent Portuguese soloists give a beautiful recital of sensual music... Virtuosity, but above all understanding the sequences of phrases and even cells that motivate suggestions, rather than affirmations. Some readings at times "French", sometimes classicist, always with measured, elegant, but undeniable intensities...In short, a double CD of high level in works and interpreters, at one of those incredible prices of the seal Brilliant.

The challenge is great in all the three "paraphrases" of the Paganini Caprices, which required Bruno Monteiro to a virtuosity difficult to revisit. (...) The best of this issue is on the second CD in Mythes op.30… The violin and piano invent new sounds with the violin drawing melodies ranging up to very high notes, and the piano in surprising harmonic transitions that already correspond to a different conception of his early works.

The technical sophistication of the virtuoso violinist Bruno Monteiro comes into play, for example, in the Sonata in D minor or in the adaptation of Paganini Caprices with modern harmonies. A successful accomplishment, excellent performance.

Excellent. Bruno Monteiro’s violinism is more direct and explosive; the Portuguese twosome is more ethereal and Monteiro sort of sliding above Santos’ pianism as if separated by a layer of oil. Monteiro’s sound is round, bold, and – particularly true for Paulo Santos’ piano – resonant bordering on the woolly..Monteiro sways casually like a Venetian gondola.