Dutton

This performance is close to ideal. All the soloists make their mark, and conductor John Andrews does an excellent job, bringing constant motion to the score and drawing refined playing from... — BBC Music Magazine, March 2019, 5 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…

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…

Boyle’s music is very much worth hearing…Soloist Benjamin Baker makes a particularly strong impression in the opening movement’s sweet rhapsodising…[Nightwinds] has a bracing swirl and snap... — BBC Music Magazine, August 2018, 4 out of 5 stars More…

...there is an inner logic to the writing, which Chase's performance effectively brings out — Gramophone Magazine, November 2010 More…

The piano part [of the Concertstück] is full of the vertiginous scampering we find in so much 19th-century French piano music, to which Victor Sangiorgio does full justice; but perhaps Cecile... — BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2017, 3 out of 5 stars 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…

Melinda Maxwell is an outstanding musician. The range of colour and expression she brings to this music is phenomenal. — BBC Music Magazine, July 2007, 5 out of 5 stars More…

The Scott revival marches on! The Sonata lirica (1937) was lost for years and this seems to be its first performance. Hearing it without knowing the composer, one might have guessed Delius.... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 More…