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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…

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…

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…

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

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…

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…

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…

Osostowicz and Tong’s interpretative style – patient, affectionate, warmly conversational, sensitive to harmonic detail – reminds me of Schneiderhan and Kempff’s classic mid-50’s set…They may... — Gramophone Magazine, September 2018 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…