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Their performances of the quintets are exemplary; executed with the utmost precision, impeccably balanced voices, lush in tone, and phrased with great care and affection. Jenkinson partners... — Fanfare, July/August 2021 More…

These are distinctive, fully achieved works by a composer with a profoundly serious artistic purpose. They’re each worth hearing, and the Dante Quartet go at them with red-blooded gusto and... — Gramophone Magazine, October 2018 More…

Here is Stanford’s idiom at its most likeable, and least prolix…the Dante’s performances offer verve and precision, with immaculate recorded sound to match — BBC Music Magazine, February 2017, 4 out of 5 stars More…

McCawley’s choices of tempos are unfailingly convincing, his articulation is lucid, crisp and full of contained vitality...This is playing that makes maximal musical sense of Haydn’s notation... — BBC Music Magazine, January 2022, 4 out of 5 stars More…

This curious programme springs some pleasant surprises. The best is saved till last: David Knotts’s remarkably inventive arrangement of three episodes from Ravel’s ballet Daphnis et Chloé...Bringing... — BBC Music Magazine, Christmas Issue 2022, 4 out of 5 stars More…

A delightful showcase of Malcolm Arnold’s many faces, from nimble, childlike joy to intense darkness. The arrangements, many recorded here for the first time, offer plenty to chew on and enjoy... — BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2021, 4 out of 5 stars More…

a delectable programme, eloquently sung. — BBC Music Magazine, October 2021, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Jacobs's compact Concerto No. 1 of 1927 starts us off with a tinkle, a crash, neo-classical fingerwork, and a sprinkling of slightly crunched harmonies...In its first recording, British devotee... — BBC Music Magazine, March 2015, 3 out of 5 stars More…