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Shelley plays this music with consummate artistry, making light of its technical difficulties and investing it with all the Romantic charm and ardour it needs. It's captured in excellent quality... — BBC Music Magazine, November 2012, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Here are two of the 34 string quintets written by George Onslow (1784-1853), a composer greatly admired by Schumann. And these are genial, enjoyable works, in lively performances by the Elan... — BBC Music Magazine, February 2019, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Their playing evokes the spirited conversation, lightness of touch and soulful hinted darkness in the Schubertian, early-Romantic E flat Quintet, as well as the vivid interchanges of the more... — BBC Music Magazine, December 2017, 4 out of 5 stars More…

These are beautifully crafted, serious works justifying Onslow’s high reputation in his time. — Sunday Times, 16th April 2021 More…

These five players make a beguiling case for this music. Their ensemble sound is attractive: it is warm and slightly inward which, combined with the small-room acoustic, makes for a real chamber-music... — Gramophone Magazine, December 2016 More…

Onslow’s melodies rise and fall in huge spans often driven from below by subtle shifts in harmony …Finely nuanced dynamics only adding to the already emotionally charged atmosphere…forget comparisons!... — Early Music Review, August 2014 More…