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The performers respond to both aspects of [Bowen's] music with muscular virtuosity and affection. Especially in the high tessitura of the slow movement, Tasmin Little’s tonal variety and rhythmic... — BBC Music Magazine More…

Namoradze brings a deft touch to these charming works [the Andersen Fragments], teasing out their respective tenderness, melancholy and wit with subtlety and poise…[In the Op. 46 Studies] Namoradze... — BBC Music Magazine, February 2021, 5 out of 5 stars More…

This most welcome second volume of British overtures serves to accentuate the sheer diversity of works this country produced in the genre between the 1890s and the 1940s and, moreover, where... — Gramophone Magazine, June 2016 More…

The Gould Piano Trio...well recorded, play with fine teamwork and a strong feeling for Bowen's idiom...this is a valuable introduction to a formidably well equipped, if doggedly conversative,... — BBC Music Magazine, April 2014, 4 out of 5 stars More…

one idiomatic opportunity after another is seized on by Chloë Hanslip with panache, poise, and laser-like accuracy...My only reservation about these excellent performances concerns Danny Driver's... — BBC Music Magazine, July 2013, 4 out of 5 stars More…

York Bowen’s concerto is quirky and gently eccentric, full of unlikely harmonic twists and creatively stretching demands on soloist and orchestra. But the ardent and lucid Power is the real star... — Classic FM Magazine More…

Dutch pianist Joop Celis displays impeccable technique in Bowen’s demanding scores. He is clearly an excellent musician. Chandos offers clear, vibrant sound. A lot of dedicated work and effort... — American Record Guide More…

A rediscovered Shostakovich impromptu and a resplendent new work by Clarice Assad, in memory of Lipman’s mother, are just two of the treats on this flight of fantasy. — BBC Music Magazine, April 2019, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Why such gratifying music has lain unplayed for so long is a mystery...The cherry on the top throughout is the wonderful playing of Joop Celis, a Dutchman completely in tune with Bowen's idiom,... — Gramophone Magazine, June 2010 More…