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If Grieg’s ‘Butterfly’ and Joplin’s Solace are a little heavy-handed for my taste, piano buffs will relish the repertoire on offer and perhaps accept more readily than me the aural deficiencies... — Gramophone Magazine, December 2017 More…

These transfers from 78rpm discs made in 1939 and 1940 are fascinating evidence of Lambert as one of the great ballet conductors. — Gramophone Magazine, December 2008 More…

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…

A breath of springlike air arrives with this programme of French works for piano and orchestra: subtle, sparkling and poised, the three pieces complement one another very well…Tryon's playing... — BBC Music Magazine, March 2016, 3 out of 5 stars More…

American composer Eric McElroy has excellent taste in poetry...These are songs that at every turn revel in the interplay of music and language, and are performed with aplomb by James Gilchrist... — BBC Music Magazine, May 2023, 4 out of 5 stars More…

a sumptuous collection of goodies to which Silver’s rich, full lyric instrument is ideally suited, and her French is excellent. Anyone who loves the Flower duet from Delibes’s Lakmé…will find... — Sunday Times, January 2016 More…

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

The virtues of Leon McCawley's Chopin playing are impressive, which will come as no surprise to those who know his earlier recordings. These beautifully recorded performances are characterised... — BBC Music Magazine, April 2011, 3 out of 5 stars More…

Rudge is in refulgent voice for the darkly passionate Op. 60 diptych of 1910…[Neven] gives a splendidly lusty account of ‘The Pipes of Pan’. Elsewhere, Neven and Wordsworth make out an unexpectedly... — Gramophone Magazine, November 2018 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…