Reviews
Roxburgh's work revealed (Macleod) to be a cellist who can hold a stage and captivate an audience. From contemplative adagio to furious toccata, she bound together the threads of Roxburgh's internal dialogue with the confidence every new work needs if it is to make it's mark.
The Strad, January 2007
The musical substance of the evening was supplied by the cellist Marie Macleod and the pianist Martin Sturfält, who began with Lutoslawski’s dark and moody Grave. Macleod produces rich tone, but she is also a gutsy, communicative player never afraid of digging in: Moto is one of Magnus Lindberg’s most virtuosic pieces and she rose to its special challenges. Both players were also strong in Huw Watkins’s impassioned, post-Romantic Cello Sonata, and they did all that was required in James MacMillan’s aggressive and gaudy Cello Sonata No 2.
The Times, January 2005
Macleod and Sturfält were powerfully eloquent in Lutoslawski's Grave, sombre yet dexterous in Magnus Lindberg's Moto, and managed to make James MacMillan's over-long Second Cello Sonata sound like one of the most riveting things ever written.
The Guardian, January 2005
...Miss Macleod then displayed a powerful and rich voice in the symphonic Prokofiev sonata. The interplay between the musicians allowed both the noble and poetic sound of the work to resonate whilst at the same time they allowed life to be breathed into the more profound and tragic depths of the work. This was a passionate and moving performance.
Musical Pointers, June 2005
It must be admitted that the young duo, to my great astonishment, this evening managed something that even exceeds the world famous great cellist in the cd-recording in my own collection. What they achieved was a worked-thru interpretation that nevertheless flowed of spontaneity, where the phrasings seemed as if born at the spur of the moment and the dynamic shifts where weighed upon golden scales. There was also an abundance of warmth and life in the playing, where the glow of the cello sound was put against a sonorous piano playing.
Hallands Nyheter (Sweden), January 2006