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The Symphonic Overtures remind one of Vaughan Williams with splashes of Stravinsky; the Piano Concerto, from 30 years later, is spiky and spicy. All good stuff. — BBC Music Magazine, November 2018, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Sound of pleasing detail and full spectrum impact in this provocative collection — MusicWeb International, June 2016 More…

Pride of place must go… to the Cello Concerto (1987), a predominantly brooding, even anguished work… the Dutch-born Jan Bastiaan Neven… expounds it with great sensitivity. The Algarve Orchestra... — BBC Music Magazine, November 2004, 4 out of 5 stars More…

All the performances seem close to ideal; one never gets the impression that these musicians just threw the music together for the recording. The recorded sound is very good, achieving the right... — Fanfare, November 2020 More…

Folky and atmospheric, much of the Portuguese Braga Santos’s chamber music has surprising hints of early 20th-century Englishness about it. A shame about the bathroomy recorded sound. — BBC Music Magazine, March 2020, 3 out of 5 stars More…

Cassuto knows and understands Braga Santos' music well. He thus conducts impeccable and committed readings of these often quite beautiful works. The Royal Scottish National Orchestra respond... — MusicWeb International, February 2012 More…

Braga Santos’s Concerto for Strings has the feel of Vaughan Williams, while glimpses of the subject of Sérgio Azevedo’s Music for Strings (In memoriam Béla Bartók) can also be heard in Azevedo’s... — BBC Music Magazine, February 2022, 4 out of 5 stars More…