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Pickard has a compositional voice that is truly sui generis. Each work sounds different from any of the others (the composer’s stated goal) and all are expertly performed by members of the Nash... — Fanfare, Nov/Dec 2020 More…

The music fair kidnaps the listener's attention at the outset and does not random it until the gripping, wholly satisfying close...The performance by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales is stunning... — Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2017 More…

This may be one of the most important contemporary orchesral CDs of 2013...Brabbins puts plenty of fire into the Norrköping players in presenting this full-blooded, ferociously positive music.... — BBC Music Magazine, June 2013, 5 out of 5 stars More…

These songs are a model of word-setting in their clarity of focus, the music truly interpreting and providing context for Binyon’s poems…Simon Lepper accompanies both singers in exemplary fashion.... — Gramophone Magazine, February 2018 More…

[Picker's] quartet writing eschews nearly all special effects in order to concentrate on the harmonic and polyphonic essence of his discourse. As in other recent releases, his powers of passionate... — BBC Music Magazine, February 2014, 5 out of 5 stars More…

For all the technical resource evident in knitting these disparate elements so convincingly together - and this is a hugely convincing, gripping symphony - the expressive intent is grippingly... — Gramophone Magazine, November 2014 More…