Download, Holst (composer)

Little's stellar playing [is] brimming with gorgeous and glitz-free tone, plus a lovely range of light and shade...Little's spacious and serene way with The Lark Ascending is both beautiful,... — BBC Music Magazine, February 2014, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Two cheers for the repertoire, but a resounding three cheers for the BBC Concert Orchestra and conductor John Andrews for exploring the hinterland of British music as the 19th century slid into... — BBC Music Magazine, May 2024, 4 out of 5 stars More…

He takes the view that a noble reticence suits Elgar’s emotional world just as well as the huge intensity of Jacqueline du Pré, whose early recording he cites as an inspiration. Often this approach... — The Telegraph, 10th January 2020 More…

An enjoyable jaunt through 30 years of rarely heard Holst chamber music, from the affable Quintet in A minor to the sinewy Terzetto for flute, oboe and clarinet. — BBC Music Magazine, May 2017, 4 out of 5 stars More…

The Tippett Quartet play this music with more than the requisite enthusiasm and insight, and the power and intimacy of their music-making is well caught by the recording team. I certainly haven’t... — BBC Music Magazine, December 2022, 4 out of 5 stars More…

[the Vaughan Williams's] lively profusion of ideas demands as fully committed performance as it receives here. Similarly fine advocacy is given to Walford Davies's Sonata in E flat. — BBC Music Magazine, October 2012, 4 out of 5 stars More…

[York2] create such magical, velvet-toned sonorities - especially potent in Venus and Saturn - that the senses are consistently beguiled. They also unearth all manner of ear-tweaking details... — Classic FM Magazine, June 2011, 4 out of 5 stars More…