"Sofia Gubaidulina is the most recognizable name here, and she contributes the longest work: the 23-minute Repentance (2008), a re-working of the previous year's Ravvedimento for cello and guitar quartet - written for Monighetti, the lyrical lynchpin of this recording - which substitutes guitar trio and double bass for the quartet. Threaded together by an ululating cello line accented by the sharp-edged tones of the erhu (a traditional two-string Chinese fiddle), it carries itself with a striking gravitational weight that is fashioned by the cello's interplay with probing, prodding, often combustible guitars (played by keenly attuned members of the Dublin Guitar Quartet) and Malachy Robinson's adroitly lowering, often exquisitely bathetic double bass."