Chamber, Sonatas, Bantock (composer)

It’s an extensive programme, encompassing a variety of styles and forces ranging from bassoon solo to small orchestral ensembles. There are some real treats, such as Bantock’s splendidly imaginative... — BBC Music Magazine, September 2021, 4 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 5 out of 5 stars (Recording)More…

warmly committed performances, well recorded. An excellent issue. — Gramophone Magazine, March 2014More…

This set is one to cherish and enjoy forever. — MusicWeb International, April 2015More…

Sarah-Jane Bradley's viola has a singing quality beautifully suited to this essentially ruminative, lyrical repertoire and Christian Wilson's role as accompanist is most sensitively judged in... — Gramophone Magazine, November 2012More…

Dedicated to that great British violinist Albert Sammons, the first of Bantock's three violin sonatas was penned in 1928-9, and appeared in print a year before its first performance (a BBC broadcast... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010More…

The Watkins brothers, Paul and Huw, buckle down to their task with sympathy and panache...The Bantock trinket is conveyed with passion, but it's left to the Foulds, almost outlandishly exuberant,... — BBC Music Magazine, December 2012, 4 out of 5 starsMore…

All three works are sure-fire audience pleasers...Stanzeleit and Fenyo are fine chamber musicians, and their performances here are praiseworthy indeed - proficient, communicative and persuasive. — MusicWeb International, January 2012More…

This disc brings together two neglected composers closely related by their friendship...Whether on violin or viola, Marshall-Luck plays with ideal purity over the widest range, important in... — Gramophone Magazine, January 2012More…

There are some rewarding discoveries here, not least the two sonatas for cello and piano.
Both were penned during the first half of the 1940s, though the sketches for the B minor Sonata date... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010More…