Arnell

Captured in beguilingly immediate sound that creates the impression of Emma Abbate and Julian Perkins playing in your liv ing room, this is a recording I have already returned to several times... — BBC Music Magazine, October 2022, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Martin Yates and the RSNO seem understandably swept away with the gripping music, and excellent sound helps makes this very much one of the most impressive Dutton discs to have come my way — Gramophone Magazine, April 2010 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…

To avoid sounding mawkish, this kind of idiom needs a really focused sound in performance: Martin Yates conjures exactly that from the RLPO string section, which responds with serious class — Classic FM Magazine, November 2010, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Written in London between 1955 and 1957 and revised seven years later, Richard Arnell's Fifth Symphony is an enormously sincere, patiently argued statement, full of rhetorical grandeur and unapologetically... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 More…

[Arnell] completed the third of his six symphonies in August 1945. …an enormously ambitious canvas… whose staggering reserves of energy, affirmative spirit and lack of inhibition should gain... — Gramophone Magazine, September 2006 More…