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The Overture 1940 is given a suitably tense outing...a rewarding programme. It helps us once again to re-set our musical and historical compasses while at the same time providing stimulating... — MusicWeb International, February 2013 More…

For John Foulds, composing light music was clearly not mere hackwork. He was a natural melodist...and there are times when the imagination goes way beyond what might be expected of a composer... — BBC Music Magazine, April 2011, 4 out of 5 stars More…

At times we miss the focused punch of one piano's combat with the orchestra…yet 20 fingers certainly bring a heightened percussive charge in the final section's 'fuga chromatica'. Either way... — BBC Music Magazine, December 2015 More…

Until the arrival of the present disc, I had rather assumed that Converse was a one-time wonder...The BBC Concert Orchestra can hardly have been confronted with this material before, but under... — International Record Review, February 2012 More…

Cecilia McDowell (London-born in 1951) is another of the new generation of highly communicative musicians who… favours writing which, without being in any way facile, is brightly cogent freshly... — Gramophone Magazine, May 2006 More…

a sequence of attractive works in a relatively conservative idiom...[The Idyll and Divertimento are] beautifully played by the Manchester Sinfonia conducted by the composer. — Gramophone Magazine, May 2010 More…