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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…

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…

The rival Russian recording [of the Blumenfeld], still obtainable with a bit of shopping around, has a special sweep and aura but Martin Yates and the RSNO are more sure-footed technically and... — Gramophone Magazine, March 2013 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…

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…

Williams is on exceptionally eloquent form in the Songs of Travel…Yates and the RSNO are at the top of their game throughout, making this an absolute delight from start to finish. — Gramophone Magazine, August 2019 More…

At times we miss the focused punch of one piano's combat with the orchestra…yet 20 fingers certainly bring a heightened percussive charge in the final section's 'fuga chromatica'. Either way... — BBC Music Magazine, December 2015 More…

Fusing the nobility of Faure with the neo-classical impulse of Les Six, Michel Damase's magical soundworlds cast a spell in these intensely devoted performances. — BBC Music Magazine, November 2014 More…

[The Bate] is a grippingly argued utterance, full of durable invention, compellingly paced...[The Arnell] is a big-hearted statement, often angular and not afraid of embracing dissonance, yet... — Gramophone Magazine, April 2011 More…