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The BBC National Orchestra of Wales give a bristlingly characterful account of Elgar’s score which competes colourfully with the many others available…The BBC players tuck into Chadwick’s piece... — BBC Music Magazine, December 2019, 4 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 5 out of 5 stars (Recording)More…

The programme's a generous one, with the Royal Philharmonic sounding in eminently healthy fettle...But there's precious little about these performances that lingers in the memory. Take Cockaigne:... — Gramophone Magazine, September 2012More…

Although Chadwick’s idiom is similar to Elgar’s, his Symphony Sketches sound dated in a way Elgar doesn’t…Victorian sentimentality, or its American equivalent, is out in force. Yet his orchestration... — BBC Music Magazine, January 2018, 3 out of 5 starsMore…

this modern-day Passion is powerful, and crying out for regular performance...Grier’s Brittenish ear for melodies that sound inevitable even when they are far from it, his elegant astringency... — Gramophone Magazine, May 2023More…

Trusler and Roscoe are best in the Debussy, which has a good mixture of sensitivity and grittiness… The juxtaposition of words and First World War popular music on the Owen disc is much more... — BBC Music Magazine, February 2006, 4 out of 5 starsMore…