Martin Yates
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William Sterndale Bennett: Piano Concertos Nos. 4 & 6
RecommendedSimon Callaghan (piano), Hiroaki Takenouchi (piano), Northern Sinfonia, Martin Yates
Callaghan is the superb soloist in the Fourth and Sixth, in energising performances with the Royal Northern Sinfonia and conductor Martin Yates that feel tailored to the music's scale and sympathies. —
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2026, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recording of the Week, 2nd January 2026
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Vaughan Williams - The Future, The Steersman, Fantasia, Flourish for Glorious John
Lucy Crowe (soprano), Jacques Imbrailo (baritone), Andrew von Oeyen (piano), BBC Symphony Chorus, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Martin Yates
Yates secures a rousing response from the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, making a strong case that The Future is by no means second-rate Vaughan Williams and deserves wider exposure. —
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2024
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Ralph Vaughan Williams: Early and Late Works
Guy Johnston (cello)
Royal Scottish National Orchestra, 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... —
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Chaminade: Callirhoë - Ballet Symphonique & Concertstück for piano and orchestra
Victor Sangiorgio (piano)
BBC Concert Orchestra, Martin Yates
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... —
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William Sterndale Bennett: Complete Piano Concertos
Malcolm Binns (piano), Simon Callaghan (piano), Hiroaki Takenouchi (piano), London Philharmonic Orchestra, Philharmonia Orchestra, Royal Northern Sinfonia, Nicholas Braithwaite, Martin Yates
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Lionel Sainsbury & John Foulds: Cello Concertos
Raphael Wallfisch (cello)
Royal National Scottish Orchestra, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Martin Yates
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... —
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2012, Editor's Choice
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Widor: Violin Concerto, Symphony No. 1 & La Nuit de Walpurgis
World premiere recordings
Sergey Levitin (violin)
Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Martin Yates
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... —
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BBC Music Magazine, June 2015, Orchestral Choice
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Vaughan Williams: Symphony No. 5 (new edition)
and works by Christopher Wright
Fenella Humphreys (violin), Christopher Watson (tenor)
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Royal Scottish National Orchestra
Martin Yates
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... —
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BBC Music Magazine, October 2012, Orchestral Choice
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Martin Yates conducts Bate, Arnell & Chisholm
Recorded: Henry Wood Hall, Glasgow, 17-18 September 2009
Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Martin Yates
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 —
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2010, Editor's Choice
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Vaughan Williams: 49th Parallel
RecommendedThe complete music written for the film
BBC Concert Orchestra, Martin Yates
This recording presents a magnificent opportunity to hear for the first time an 81-minute orchestral score by Vaughan Williams in good sound. Not to be missed. —
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Record Review, 24th June 2023, Record of the Week
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2023
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