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These transfers from 78rpm discs made in 1939 and 1940 are fascinating evidence of Lambert as one of the great ballet conductors. — Gramophone Magazine, December 2008 More…

O the pleasure of discovering these songs in performances as good as these — Gramophone Magazine More…

If Grieg’s ‘Butterfly’ and Joplin’s Solace are a little heavy-handed for my taste, piano buffs will relish the repertoire on offer and perhaps accept more readily than me the aural deficiencies... — Gramophone Magazine, December 2017 More…

Bebbington's playing is always sensitively nuanced, every phrase expressively shaped and pedalled, without losing sight of each piece's overall thrust and import. Buy with confidence. — BBC Music Magazine, February 2009, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Osostowicz and Tong’s interpretative style – patient, affectionate, warmly conversational, sensitive to harmonic detail – reminds me of Schneiderhan and Kempff’s classic mid-50’s set…They may... — Gramophone Magazine, September 2018 More…

Some of the new works play their part better than others…The Beethoven recordings sound very much ‘as live’, with the odd passing blemish left as it is – but I’d certainly put up with that for... — BBC Music Magazine, September 2019, 4 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 5 out of 5 stars (Recording) More…

Sung shines in the lyrical episodes of Vaughan Williams’s Violin Concerto…Hesketh’s richly colourful and evocative orchestral soundscapes in Inscription-Transformation, composed specifically... — BBC Music Magazine, February 2020, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Boult was the dedicatee of Edmund Rubbra’s Second Symphony…Such a deep personal connection shines through every bar of this 1954 studio recording, whose near-incandescent intensity makes the... — BBC Music Magazine, May 2018, 4 out of 5 stars More…

A breath of springlike air arrives with this programme of French works for piano and orchestra: subtle, sparkling and poised, the three pieces complement one another very well…Tryon's playing... — BBC Music Magazine, March 2016, 3 out of 5 stars More…

Rudge is in refulgent voice for the darkly passionate Op. 60 diptych of 1910…[Neven] gives a splendidly lusty account of ‘The Pipes of Pan’. Elsewhere, Neven and Wordsworth make out an unexpectedly... — Gramophone Magazine, November 2018 More…