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Dedicated to that great British violinist Albert Sammons, the first of Bantock's three violin sonatas was penned in 1928-9, and appeared in print a year before its first performance (a BBC broadcast... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 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…