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Pianist Christopher Glynn adroitly elicits the diverse character of each song...Some of the songs themselves might draw more from the texts, but these approachable, sometimes quirky vignettes... — BBC Music Magazine, February 2023, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Charming late-Romantic piano quintets by Beach and Oswald, which doff their caps to the European Romantic traditions. Such works could use a more colourful interpretation — BBC Music Magazine, July 2020, 3 out of 5 stars More…

The Dante Quartet’s performances are superbly stylish and accurate; the First Quartet is led by second violinist Oscar Perks, who delivers every bit as impressively as leader Krysia Osostowicz... — BBC Music Magazine, March 2020, 4 out of 5 stars More…

This little-known music reveals a highly accomplished composer, with well-formed melodies, inventive part-writing, nicely contrasted textures and an easeful command of long-term continuities...I... — BBC Music Magazine, March 2022, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Pride of place foes to Joubert's 1977 Second Quartet, an impressive piece played with great conviction by the Brodsky Quartet, in the best recording of the set. — BBC Music Magazine, Proms 2007, 4 out of 5 stars More…

You can never have enough of Saint-Saëns’ Piano Concerto No. 5, a piece tailor-made to soothe and delight during stressful times. It gets better and better with repeated listenings... We’re... — The Arts Desk, October 2020 More…

Here is Stanford’s idiom at its most likeable, and least prolix…the Dante’s performances offer verve and precision, with immaculate recorded sound to match — BBC Music Magazine, February 2017, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Here the outstanding performance [of the Second Quartet] is flanked by accounts of the First and Third marked by equal intensity and responsiveness to mood, and similarly well recorded. — BBC Music Magazine, August 2012, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Their performances of the quintets are exemplary; executed with the utmost precision, impeccably balanced voices, lush in tone, and phrased with great care and affection. Jenkinson partners... — Fanfare, July/August 2021 More…