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The Cypress Quartet play with taut rhythms and great tonal refinement, both as individuals and in a beautifully rounded ensemble sound. A reflective approach to the more lyrical moments of the... — BBC Music Magazine, February 2014, 5 out of 5 stars More…

The soloists and instrumentalists are first-class, and Sorrell’s arrangements are full of zip and colour — BBC Music Magazine, July 2016, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Apollo's Fire proves a lithe, spirited band. An ultra-abstemious approach to vibrato and an intermittent tendency to swell on longer notes reveal the group's Baroque orientation...Amanda Forsythe... — Gramophone Magazine, December 2010 More…

The programme in John Matthew Myers’s relatively demure debut is full of soulful earnestness and enterprising musical intelligence in a symmetrical cross section of American music. — Gramophone Magazine, September 2022 More…

…Ann Murray… eagerly explores the varied moods of A Charm of Lullabies, paying due attention to the composer's masterly settings of an eclectic choice of verse. In Frauenliebe und -leben Murray... — Gramophone Magazine, February 2006 More…

This particularly fine example of Stradivari's work is given generous centre stage by Almond's longtime duo partner William Wolfram. — Gramophone Magazine, July 2013 More…

Sulayman is always engaging, with an appealing honesty to his approach and a vividness to his storytelling...His light, silvery tenor is in many ways suited to much of the programme’s theme,... — Gramophone Magazine, July 2020 More…

Stravinsky's music requires very exact balance, something scrupulously caught in these performances and the efficient recordings. — Gramophone Magazine, April 2013 More…

Celebrating the enduring power of the variations form, this recital moves from distinguished recent examples to Brahms’s resplendent Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Handel...Peter Lieberson’s... — Sunday Times, 1st March 2015 More…