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The middle movement [of the Elgar String Quartet] is the revelation, shimmering with a new hushed beauty - equally a testament to the lustre frequently achieved by the 16 musicians in Ben Palmer's... — BBC Music Magazine, June 2015, 4 out of 5 starsMore…

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 2017More…

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 2018More…

Mark Bebbington, both with and without the orchestra, plays what there is with passion and conviction…[in the Delius] Bebbington brings in a good dose of bravura and also finds, together with... — BBC Music Magazine, July 2018, 3 out of 5 starsMore…

These ten absolutely delightful and musically worthwhile overtures would brighten any listener's day and are wonderfully performed by a - self-evidently - hand-picked orchestra...an important... — International Record Review, May 2013More…

the finest, most technically secure singing in the recital comes from baritone Roderick Williams, whose outstanding diction in no way compromises the evenness and sustained tonal plenitude of... — BBC Music Magazine, February 2016, 4 out of 5 starsMore…

Howick and her pianist Simon Callaghan knit [the first movement of the Walton] cogently together, neatly negotiating a myriad of mood switches which could easily seem juddering. Howick’s vibrato... — BBC Music Magazine, June 2020, 4 out of 5 starsMore…

this superbly programmed recital explores night and its uncertainties and fears… but with a peaceful ending. Williams is as at home in the wilder moments of Scriabin as she is serenading us... — BBC Music Magazine, December 2021, 4 out of 5 starsMore…