Chamber, Quintets, Blackford (composer)

Brabbins nurtures the orchestra’s proliferating counter-melodies, and the recording renders them all clearly, though without ever making the BBC SO sound like the ‘small orchestra’ Strauss specified — BBC Music Magazine, November 2016, 4 out of 5 starsMore…

[the Violin Concerto is] an appealing piece and finely played by Maria Gajdosova; but the Clarinet Quintet is more engrossing in the way that its three movements outline an ultimately tragic... — Gramophone Magazine, June 2017More…