Vaughan Williams - Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis

The sound, engineered by Ralph Couzens, is magnificent...While fully relishing the at times dreamy polyphony of Vaughan Williams’s textures, Wilson’s Fantasia has sharp, impassioned edges too,... — BBC Music Magazine, April 2023, 5 out of 5 stars More…

The success-level here is excellently high. Collectors will savour a genuine rarity: the composer’s own orchestra-only arrangement of the Serenade to Music…the music sounds as rapturously beautiful... — BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2019, 5 out of 5 stars More…

This set presents RVW in a slightly heretical way that will appeal to those whose RVW tastes have become jaded or for those who have, for whatever reason, been put off by the mainstream cycles.... — MusicWeb International, 5th March 2014 More…

Gražinytė-Tyla brings a fresheared approach to four English masters of orchestral writing…The Fantasia, rapt and mysterious, receives the most successful performance. — BBC Music Magazine, December 2021, 3 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 5 out of 5 stars (Recording) More…

This is almost certainly the very finest recording of English string music...Moreover it might also be considered one of Barbirolli's very finest records — Penguin Guide, 2011 edition More…