Orchid Classics

There is plenty of dazzling passagework to savour — BBC Music Magazine, October 2013, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Brodsky cellist Jacqueline Thomas calls the opening movement of Ravel's quartet 'impressionist', and that's certainly the way the ensemble plays it, teasing out rallentandos expressively, moulding... — BBC Music Magazine, November 2010, 4 out of 5 stars More…

The programme's a generous one, with the Royal Philharmonic sounding in eminently healthy fettle...But there's precious little about these performances that lingers in the memory. Take Cockaigne:... — Gramophone Magazine, September 2012 More…

Although Chadwick’s idiom is similar to Elgar’s, his Symphony Sketches sound dated in a way Elgar doesn’t…Victorian sentimentality, or its American equivalent, is out in force. Yet his orchestration... — BBC Music Magazine, January 2018, 3 out of 5 stars More…

Wass's performance uses a Bohemian piano made in the 1820s, which enables him to command a wide range of colours: his handling of the opening movement's long waves of crescendos, for instance,... — BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2012, 2 out of 5 stars More…