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This is a delight...The balance is inclined to overfavour the piano, but Driver’s playing is so good, one can’t complain. His rapport with Hanslip’s splendidly incisive yet sweet-toned violin... — Sunday Times, 29th April 2018 More…

Right from the start of the Tchaikovsky, your ears are hooked by her strong, confident tone. Her fingers never seem to take a breath as the long burnished phrases roll on and on. You notice too... — BBC Music Magazine, June 2023, 3 out of 5 stars More…

A smattering of Purcell, dances from Playford’s Dancing Master, shanties, reels and ballads succumb to a nine-piece ensemble drawing on Baroque, jazz and folk styles for a no holds barred hooley... — BBC Music Magazine, January 2018, 4 out of 5 stars More…

There are arresting ideas…But Amner rarely approaches the greatness of his peers such as Gibbons, and his ‘professional efficiency’ sometimes rubs off on the Dubliners under Mark Keane…Fretwork... — BBC Music Magazine, September 2019, 3 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 4 out of 5 stars (Recording) More…

Certainly these works benefit from Martinova’s energy and splendid ear for tone colour. — Gramophone Magazine More…

On this disc of high-quality playing there are many treasures, not least of all the ebullient Quintet, which is a cracker. — BBC Music Magazine, April 2021, 5 out of 5 stars More…

This third and final disc in Owain Arwel Hughes’s survey of all Sibelius’s numbered symphonies with the RPO opens with an impressive account of the Fifth – lacking only perhaps a little in visceral... — BBC Music Magazine, November 2022, 3 out of 5 stars More…

An attractive sequence of folk-inflected works by Georgian, Armenian, Greek, Hungarian and British-born composers in imaginative arrangements for solo cello and string orchestra by Alessio Pianelli...strongly... — BBC Music Magazine, June 2021, 4 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 5 out of 5 stars (Recording) More…

At its centre is the large-scale Piano Sonata by Bridge...It breaks with Bridge’s pre-war tonal language and Soares is clearly in tune with the work’s anguish, making much of the opening’s high-lying... — Gramophone Magazine, October 2021 More…