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SANDRA LIED HAGA

Norwegian Cellist

Rating: 6 out of 6.

“Sandra’s tone is exquisite, rich and extremely beautiful. Her playing is intelligent and deep-felt. This young lady surely is the future of cello playing.“

– Maxim Vengerov, April 2023

“She has had a sensational technical control from an early age, a rich, singing cello tone, and has over the years developed her own personal voice.”

– Leif Ove Andsnes and Jury of Equinor Classical Music Award

“Sandra Lied Haga emerges as one of the strongest musical voices in recent years.”

– Simax Classics

“Sandra Lied Haga, who has established a reputation as one of the world’s leading cellists in a remarkably short time, produces an absolutely convincing reading of the piece…“

– Martin Anderson, KlassiskMusikk.com, June 2023

“With this she outshines many recordings by renowned artists and record labels. A beautiful discovery.”  

– Christian Busch, Glarean Magazin

“Divine cello playing, heavenly sound, a masterly performance.”

– Grieg Festival

“Every tone in the music is meant from Dvorak’s blood, liver and heart, which is exactly how it sounds in Lied Haga’s performance”

– Magnus Andersson, Klassekampen

NEWS

  • Glarean Magazin – Sensitive feeling for the intimate passages (EN)

    The young Norwegian cello virtuoso Sandra Lied Haga makes an impressive album debut on the Simax/Naxos CD label with Tchaikovsky’s „Rococo Variations“ and Dvorak’s Cello Concerto, outdoing several other renowned recordings in various ways.

  • KLASSISK MUSIKK – Sandra Lied Haga REVIEW (EN)

    The abiding impression of this recording is one of a deep intimacy with the music: no matter how familiar it might be, the musicians – the orchestral players as much as the soloist – seem to treat it with the same mix of delicacy and excitement that you feel when someone hands you a newborn…

  • THE INDEPENDENT – CLASSICAL REVIEWS (EN)

    Jonathan Biss brings his complete recorded Beethoven cycle to a triumphant conclusion, while the cellist Sandra Lied Haga deploys her warm and passionate sound with two works by Tchaikovsky and Dvorak

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