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performed here with thrilling conviction and formidable assurance...Sawyers's excitingly integrated music marries a genuine lyrical impulse to a genuine thematic substance and marvellously invigorating... — Gramophone Magazine, October 2014 More…

... it's a splendid album, superbly played and recorded. — Billboard Magazine More…

[Grand Rapids] stands up as a remarkable achievement for a student composer of barely 21. There's some Shostakovich in there too, and, like his models, Sawyer's discourse is well paced and logical,... — Gramophone Magazine, January 2011 More…

Philip Sawyers’s Third Symphony (2015) is undoubtedly one of the finest British symphonies of recent years…The performance is terrific, and terrifically committed, superbly marshalled by Kenneth... — Gramophone Magazine, October 2017 More…

Martin Jones is a superb advocate for this rich kaleidoscope. His playing is delightfully exuberant and he is able to reach both the thunderous heights of power demanded by the Tchaikovsky concerto... — BBC Music Magazine More…

Kenneth Woods is in his element with this kind of music, and the excellent musicians of the BBC National Orchestra of Wales are cleanly and spaciously recorded. Indeed, sound quality is an improvement... — Fanfare, Jan/Feb 2021 More…

The second volume in Martin Jones' 'Spanish Piano Music', could hardly be more enticing or delectable ... performed with rare sensetivity, immaculate dexterity and temperamental ardour ... such... — Gramophone Magazine More…