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Yates and the RSNO are admirably chipper exponents…Yates’s idiomatic orchestration of the composer’s handwritten piano score [for The Blue Bird] falls most agreeably on the ear…In summary, a... — Gramophone Magazine, January 2019 More…

...there is an inner logic to the writing, which Chase's performance effectively brings out — Gramophone Magazine, November 2010 More…

The piano part [of the Concertstück] is full of the vertiginous scampering we find in so much 19th-century French piano music, to which Victor Sangiorgio does full justice; but perhaps Cecile... — BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2017, 3 out of 5 stars More…

Martin Yates’s infectious performances with the BBC Concert Orchestra make absolutely clear why Ketèlbey ’s fancies still bring pleasure today...Half the items have never been recorded digitally... — BBC Music Magazine, August 2023, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Melinda Maxwell is an outstanding musician. The range of colour and expression she brings to this music is phenomenal. — BBC Music Magazine, July 2007, 5 out of 5 stars More…

The Scott revival marches on! The Sonata lirica (1937) was lost for years and this seems to be its first performance. Hearing it without knowing the composer, one might have guessed Delius.... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 More…

Baritone Jeremy Huw Williams is his usual reliable self in the Diptych, and everything is expertly paced and balanced, crisply played and brightly recorded. — BBC Music Magazine, Proms 2008, 4 out of 5 stars More…

To be able to get along with Havergal Brian's exasperating talent, you need above-average reserves of patience...Ceaselessly up-for-it RSNO playing and Brabbins's firm direction together make... — BBC Music Magazine, May 2013, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Always a spirited champion of British repertoire, Raphael Wallfisch gives the piece his considerable all, with Martin Yates and the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra sweeping happily alongside...Wallfisch's... — BBC Music Magazine, August 2012, 4 out of 5 stars More…