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Some of the new works play their part better than others…The Beethoven recordings sound very much ‘as live’, with the odd passing blemish left as it is – but I’d certainly put up with that for... — BBC Music Magazine, September 2019, 4 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 5 out of 5 stars (Recording) More…

This is not exciting or showy playing, but solidly musical and utterly stylish. — Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2005 More…

[Sacheverell-Coke's] 24 Preludes' style and manner is soaked in the Romantic piano tradition (Rachmaninov uppermost), yet harmonic twists and an obsessive repetitions of melody and rhythmic... — BBC Music Magazine, November 2015 More…

Most impressive throughout the disc is McCawley’s command of subtle nuance and rubato without ever sounding self-conscious or mannered. The impression, so artfully mediated, is that the music... — BBC Music Magazine, December 2019, 4 out of 5 stars More…

The women, too, wrote music of exceptional skill and beauty…Their works inhabit distinctive, highly Romantic soundworlds full of invention and drama, the interweaving of violin, cello and piano... — BBC Music Magazine, October 2019, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Even without Delius's orchestral colours, these versions are intriguing listening. Grainger's Song of the High Hills arrangement conjures gorgeous, gamelan-like sounds. — BBC Music Magazine, December 2013, 4 out of 5 stars More…

mainly what we have here is Elgar the entertainer, supplying his dance music to order. Barry Collett has been in the forefront of the revival of this repertoire, and the Innovation Chamber Ensemble... — BBC Music Magazine, July 2014, 4 out of 5 stars More…

O the pleasure of discovering these songs in performances as good as these — Gramophone Magazine More…