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[Sacheverell-Coke's] 24 Preludes' style and manner is soaked in the Romantic piano tradition (Rachmaninov uppermost), yet harmonic twists and an obsessive repetitions of melody and rhythmic... — BBC Music Magazine, November 2015 More…

The virtues of Leon McCawley's Chopin playing are impressive, which will come as no surprise to those who know his earlier recordings. These beautifully recorded performances are characterised... — BBC Music Magazine, April 2011, 3 out of 5 stars More…

evidently taped off-air with less than the highest end equipment. Yet what comes through is a blazing performance – further evidence that Beecham was evidently far more inspired live than is... — BBC Music Magazine, March 2022, 4 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…

The women, too, wrote music of exceptional skill and beauty…Their works inhabit distinctive, highly Romantic soundworlds full of invention and drama, the interweaving of violin, cello and piano... — BBC Music Magazine, October 2019, 4 out of 5 stars More…

mainly what we have here is Elgar the entertainer, supplying his dance music to order. Barry Collett has been in the forefront of the revival of this repertoire, and the Innovation Chamber Ensemble... — BBC Music Magazine, July 2014, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Lomeiko makes short work of Medtner’s otherwise epic Third Sonata. Karpeyev is en pointe, too, takign what is a dizzyingly agile part in his stride. Theodore Platt is in fine, hefty, voice for... — BBC Music Magazine, December 2023, 4 out of 5 stars More…