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The young British clarinettist Sarah Williamson, making her debut on disc, finds appropriate colours for both [works], and makes light of their technical demands...David Curtis's Midlands-based... — BBC Music Magazine, August 2010, 3 out of 5 stars More…

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

Sung shines in the lyrical episodes of Vaughan Williams’s Violin Concerto…Hesketh’s richly colourful and evocative orchestral soundscapes in Inscription-Transformation, composed specifically... — BBC Music Magazine, February 2020, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Her playing has a combined energy, verve, and technical precision that does all it can to search out the character of each item on her programme…the most memorable experience here, by far, comes... — BBC Music Magazine, December 2017, 4 out of 5 stars More…

These are essentially ‘old fashioned’ interpretations: moderate in choice of tempos and range of dynamics, full-toned, warm and blended in textures and inflected with a generous degree of vibrato... — BBC Music Magazine, August 2018, 3 out of 5 stars More…

The playing, both individually and collectively, is impeccable and the result is a very significant recording indeed. — Early Music Review More…

Bebbington is adept at getting to the lyrical heart of a work, and the interpretative gem here is perhaps his intensely sympathetic reading of Gerald Finzi's short Eclogue for piano and strings. — BBC Music Magazine, October 2009, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Cummings doesn't miss a detail: every trill and ornament is realised with the utmost clarity and his expertly balanced playing manages the rare feat of making the melody lines truly cantabile.... — Gramophone Magazine, August 2010 More…