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

Boult was the dedicatee of Edmund Rubbra’s Second Symphony…Such a deep personal connection shines through every bar of this 1954 studio recording, whose near-incandescent intensity makes the... — BBC Music Magazine, May 2018, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Boult's interpretation of the Symphony impresses by dint of its thrusting energy, logic and cumulative grip...there's no missing the infectious commitment here or in Belshazzar's Feast — Gramophone Magazine, May 2010 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…

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…

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…

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…