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This useful anthology brings together three of Malcolm Arnold's most powerfully distinctive and deeply personal works...[Donohoe] plays with coruscating aplomb, his partnership with Yates and... — Gramophone Magazine, July 2015 More…

Sarah-Jane Bradley, former member of the Sorrel Quartet, is a wonderfully eloquent player and obtains sterling support from her collaborators here. — Gramophone Magazine, July 2007 More…

The extensive Vivacissimo finale [of the First Violin Concerto]...provides the most breathtaking bravura on the disc, superbly negotiated by Philippe Graffin, whose beauty of tone in the slower,... — BBC Music Magazine, February 2011, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Britten's music is wiry and nervous, dotted with a timpani tattoo…Graffin gives a very strong reading, fully reflecting the music's jitters. Nicholas Collon and the Philharmonia excel too, especially... — BBC Music Magazine, December 2015 More…

Above all, I love the Jazz Piano Concerto (1966). Composed originally for harpsichord and for George Malcolm, it strikingly combines aspects of Malcolm's two specialisations - Baroque and jazz.... — Gramophone Magazine, November 2007 More…

d'Erlanger emerges as an extremely accomplished, agreeably undemanding composer whose orchestral pieces hover somewhere between high-class Ketelbey and low-grade Elgar. The two cello pieces... — Gramophone Magazine, August 2013 More…

Harlequin in April, recorded here for the first time, was Arnell's most enduring ballet in the theatre… Concerto capriccioso… endearingly inventive and moving work, with sweet lyricism masking... — Gramophone Magazine, November 2009 More…