Wass and the Tippett Quartet rise magnificently to [the Bax's] challenges, striking the perfect balance between sheer OTT grandiloquence and intense and genuine feeling...this is a thrilling performance with the authentic all-or-nothing flavour.

Confounding the popular view of him as fey rural pastoralist, Bax's Piano Quintet is wonderfully off-the-leash and extreme...The Tippetts choose not to compromise their physical impact, nor Bax's obsessive-compulsive, hard-driven finale...I can't imagine the Bax receiving a more passionate, devoted performance.

At 41 minutes the Quintet may be on the long side but it certainly holds the interest throughout, particularly in a fine performance such as this by the Tippett Quartet and Ashley Wass, who obviously relishes the virtuoso element in the piano writing.

[The Bax] brings the best out of pianist Ashley Wass and the Tippett Quartet, for they attack Bax's huge, teeming first movement with gung-ho intensity that sweeps all before it, and which they sustain right through the work.

Conceived on a large scale and cunningly wrought, Arnold Bax’s Piano Quintet ...is given a vibrant performance by Ashley Wass and the Tippett Quartet, one that does not shy away from the music’s monumental architecture and density of texture but at the same time brings vitality to its Celtic melodic contours.