Martin Yates

The stand-out music...comes in Dark Pastoral. This is David Matthews's wonderfully skilled and imaginative, yet always-in-style completion of the slow movement of an unfinished cello concerto...Johnston's... — BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2012, 4 out of 5 stars More…

This valuable new release, the third volume in Martin Yates's Widor series, shows exactly why the Goethe-inspired score enjoyed success during the composer's lifetime…it is an orchestral tour... — BBC Music Magazine, June 2015, 5 out of 5 stars More…

The piano part [of the Concertstück] is full of the vertiginous scampering we find in so much 19th-century French piano music, to which Victor Sangiorgio does full justice; but perhaps Cecile... — BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2017, 3 out of 5 stars More…

Always a spirited champion of British repertoire, Raphael Wallfisch gives the piece his considerable all, with Martin Yates and the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra sweeping happily alongside...Wallfisch's... — BBC Music Magazine, August 2012, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Wright's idiom - both listener-friendly and superbly skilled, with never a wasted note - has no problems sustaining a 35-minute design. Violinist Fenella Humphreys responds to its elegiac reflection... — BBC Music Magazine, October 2012, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Sangiorgio is at one with the idiom, able to charm and barnstorm with the best of them, sound engineer Dexter Newman capturing the full-bodied bass of the piano in a warm, spacious soundscape. — Gramophone Magazine, January 2013 More…

At times we miss the focused punch of one piano's combat with the orchestra…yet 20 fingers certainly bring a heightened percussive charge in the final section's 'fuga chromatica'. Either way... — BBC Music Magazine, December 2015 More…

Victor Sangiorgio, you feel, has had these works in his fingers for some time, while the equally infectious vitality that Martin Yates brings to the proceedings adds to the impression of everyone... — Gramophone Magazine, November 2011 More…

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 2014 More…

Dutton here resurrects three long-buried British violin concertos… The excellent Lorraine McAslan is a sensitive soloist, giving all three works the supremely confident advocacy they need,... — BBC Music Magazine, June 2009, 4 out of 5 stars More…