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Sangiorgio is at one with the idiom, able to charm and barnstorm with the best of them, sound engineer Dexter Newman capturing the full-bodied bass of the piano in a warm, spacious soundscape. — Gramophone Magazine, January 2013 More…

The performances are far from unsympathetic, the recordings clear, warm-toned and well-balanced...Best by far is the ardent slow movement of the Second Concerto - less samey, more memorable than... — BBC Music Magazine, January 2012, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Written in London between 1955 and 1957 and revised seven years later, Richard Arnell's Fifth Symphony is an enormously sincere, patiently argued statement, full of rhetorical grandeur and unapologetically... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 More…

These are excellently delivered by the Royal Scottish National Orchestra under Martin Yates; and if the solo part's technical demands in the very opening stages hint at stretching even Lionel... — BBC Music Magazine, February 2016, 4 out of 5 stars More…

The colourful scoring, together with some characteristic melodic and harmonic twists, go right back to the Colour Symphony of the 1920s... it’s hard to imagine a more persuasive performance,... — BBC Music Magazine, January 2022, 4 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 5 out of 5 stars (Recording) More…

Yates and the RSNO are also compelling in the vigorous Second Symphony (1882), but the highlight of the disc is the Cello Concerto. Torleif Thedeen's warm-toned playing of the solo part deserves... — BBC Music Magazine, September 2013, 4 out of 5 stars 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…

If this is not quite a resurrection like Anthony Payne's of Elgar's Third Symphony, it was still worth doing, and adds to our knowledge of the struggle against adversity that's enshrined in much... — BBC Music Magazine, May 2012 More…

Martin Yates directs full-blooded, compelling performances… Arnell well deserves attention, alongside Alwyn and Arnold in Britain's composing A-team. — Gramophone Magazine, November 2008 More…