Download, Parry (composer)

Altogether, this is an album to spend time with and relish as one’s familiarity with this music grows in performances which capture the genial warmth as well as the seriousness of this great... — BBC Music Magazine, August 2019, 5 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 4 out of 5 stars (Recording) More…

Enthusiasm isn’t always enough to prevent recordings of unfamiliar music from sounding raw but these performances feel fully matured – fresh, intelligent and strikingly stylish; edgy when they... — Gramophone Magazine, February 2019 More…

If IKEA were to make a cello, this would be it…Sow how does it sound? In Steven Isserlis’s hands, remarkably fine – though he only uses it for a handful of evocative miniatures…On Isserlis’s... — BBC Music Magazine, February 2018, 5 out of 5 stars More…

It is not before time that both these substantial Parry chamber works are at last available on CD...The Bridge Quartet provide sympathetic interpretations of this unfamiliar repertoire which...deserves... — Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2013 More…

The Archaeus quartet favours a quite lean collective sound, very different from the turbocharged sumptuousness of much of today’s quartet-playing, and is likeable and convincing in the earlier... — BBC Music Magazine, August 2018, 3 out of 5 stars More…