Browse: Vaughan Williams - Piano Quintet in C minor for Violin, Viola, Cello, Double Bass, and Piano

There's more to Padmore's performance: fine tone, a strong sense of pitch, crystal clear enunciation and a wonderful feeling for long lines. — BBC Music Magazine, May 2008, 5 out of 5 stars More…

The performances are exceptional. In a collective and individual display of how to deliver chamber music at world-class level, Sarah-Jane Bradley's viola-playing - ear-mesmerising, yet never... — BBC Music Magazine, July 2014, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Its dramatic juxtapositions of Lisztian piano cadenzas with VW’s setting for choir and orchestra of Thomas Ravenscroft’s 17th-century psalm tune are stirringly captured on this new recording,... — BBC Music Magazine, January 2023, 4 out of 5 stars More…

There’s plenty to enjoy here. These players generate a real sense of inwardness in the little pools of tranquillity that punctuate Vaughan Williams’s big, Brahmsian climaxes, and throughout there’s... — Gramophone Magazine, June 2016 More…

Tautly constructed, with much motivic interplay, the [Goetz Piano Quintet]…makes you grieve for the works lost when the composer died early from tuberculosis. Balance favours the strings rather... — BBC Music Magazine, September 2015 More…

...this music all tells us about Vaughan Williams' development, and that while he hadn't yet found the sounds and idiosyncrasies which made him unique (and to some people uniquely annoying),... — Andrew McGregor, bbc.co.uk, 20th November 2002 More…