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…York Bowen… premiered his First Piano Concerto (1903) at the Proms while he was still a student at the Royal Academy of Music. It's an unashamedly virtuoso vehicle… Michael Dussek negotiates... — BBC Music Magazine, August 2006, 5 out of 5 starsMore…

Fusing the nobility of Faure with the neo-classical impulse of Les Six, Michel Damase's magical soundworlds cast a spell in these intensely devoted performances. — BBC Music Magazine, November 2014More…

Ronald Corp and the BBC Concert Orchestra pitch in with gusto and lovely bright colours - just the job for a composer pointedly cherished by MacDonald for his 'musical optimism' and 'zest for... — BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2014, 4 out of 5 starsMore…

[The Glass Mountain Suite] is given a touching performance, with a number of fine performances from individual players…[in the Sinfonia brevis] the lyrical passages are turned on their heads... — Gramophone Magazine, August 2015More…

such is soloist Alice Neary's skill in not over-playing her hand too early [in the Howells] that the unfolding of the material seems pleasingly organic. Her mellow, elegiac tone suits perfectly... — BBC Music Magazine, Awards Issue 2015, 3 out of 5 starsMore…

Martin Yates directs full-blooded, compelling performances… Arnell well deserves attention, alongside Alwyn and Arnold in Britain's composing A-team. — Gramophone Magazine, November 2008More…

in Helen Callus we have an outstanding player who is clearly dedicated to these works. In turn, she is quite superbly partnered by the BBC Concert Orchestra, whose fine playing here is surely... — International Record Review, July/August 2011More…

The extensive Vivacissimo finale [of the First Violin Concerto]...provides the most breathtaking bravura on the disc, superbly negotiated by Philippe Graffin, whose beauty of tone in the slower,... — BBC Music Magazine, February 2011, 5 out of 5 starsMore…

Martin Yates secures excellent performances of all three works. Martelli's Symphony gets a particularly fine response from every section of the RSNO. — BBC Music Magazine, December 2011, 4 out of 5 starsMore…