Arnell

Martin Yates and the RSNO seem understandably swept away with the gripping music, and excellent sound helps makes this very much one of the most impressive Dutton discs to have come my way — Gramophone Magazine, April 2010 More…

Captured in beguilingly immediate sound that creates the impression of Emma Abbate and Julian Perkins playing in your liv ing room, this is a recording I have already returned to several times... — BBC Music Magazine, October 2022, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Dutton here resurrects three long-buried British violin concertos… The excellent Lorraine McAslan is a sensitive soloist, giving all three works the supremely confident advocacy they need, and... — BBC Music Magazine, June 2009, 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…

To avoid sounding mawkish, this kind of idiom needs a really focused sound in performance: Martin Yates conjures exactly that from the RLPO string section, which responds with serious class — Classic FM Magazine, November 2010, 4 out of 5 stars 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…

[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…