Browse: Bowen - Phantasy for Viola & Piano Op. 54

Markova was just 25 years old when this debut recording was made, and on its evidence she is an artist we’ll be hearing considerably more of in the future. — BBC Music Magazine, March 2024, 4 out of 5 stars More…

both works provide a refreshing and varied sequence to the Brahms viola sonatas with which they are in many ways unjustly compared. Bowen's effulgent and often suave harmonic language is at once... — Gramophone Magazine, March 2012 More…

Following his successful recording of Bowen' Concerto, Lawrence Power turns to this repertoire with similar technical ease, and persuasively idiomatic tempo inflections and portamenti (slides). — BBC Music Magazine, August 2008, 5 out of 5 stars More…

A rediscovered Shostakovich impromptu and a resplendent new work by Clarice Assad, in memory of Lipman’s mother, are just two of the treats on this flight of fantasy. — BBC Music Magazine, April 2019, 4 out of 5 stars More…

This disc is full of the rhapsody and lyricism that suits its middle-voiced, rich tone...Beautifully played, this is an addictive disc. — The Observer, 9th February 2014, 4 out of 5 stars More…

these recordings of his large-scale solo string works with piano can only help to reinforce our awareness of his consummate mastery of extended musical forms in the demanding idiom of absolute... — Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2011 More…