Martin Yates

Yates conducts with appropriate majesty, his slow tempos very close to Ernest Irvin’s in the film. The RSNO and chorus are in powerful form, and Ilona Domnich contributes a strikingly eerie... — BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2017, 5 out of 5 stars More…

The stand-out music...comes in Dark Pastoral. This is David Matthews's wonderfully skilled and imaginative, yet always-in-style completion of the slow movement of an unfinished cello concerto...Johnston's... — BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2012, 4 out of 5 stars More…

This valuable new release, the third volume in Martin Yates's Widor series, shows exactly why the Goethe-inspired score enjoyed success during the composer's lifetime…it is an orchestral tour... — BBC Music Magazine, June 2015, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Yates and the RSNO are admirably chipper exponents…Yates’s idiomatic orchestration of the composer’s handwritten piano score [for The Blue Bird] falls most agreeably on the ear…In summary, a... — Gramophone Magazine, January 2019 More…

Martin Yates’s infectious performances with the BBC Concert Orchestra make absolutely clear why Ketèlbey ’s fancies still bring pleasure today...Half the items have never been recorded digitally... — BBC Music Magazine, August 2023, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Fusing the nobility of Faure with the neo-classical impulse of Les Six, Michel Damase's magical soundworlds cast a spell in these intensely devoted performances. — BBC Music Magazine, November 2014 More…

For me, it is in short works that Godard’s strength lies...It would be hard not be charmed by the five morceaux En plein air, where Godard’s melodic gifts and fluency are captured in heart-warming... — Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2022 More…

Always a spirited champion of British repertoire, Raphael Wallfisch gives the piece his considerable all, with Martin Yates and the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra sweeping happily alongside...Wallfisch's... — BBC Music Magazine, August 2012, 4 out of 5 stars More…