Chamber, Bowen (composer)

The performers respond to both aspects of [Bowen's] music with muscular virtuosity and affection. Especially in the high tessitura of the slow movement, Tasmin Little’s tonal variety and rhythmic... — BBC Music Magazine More…

bathed in Chandos splendour, the Watkins brothers remain by far the best recorded guides to this powerful and enjoyable repertoire. — BBC Music Magazine, Christmas Issue 2013, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Following his successful recording of Bowen' Concerto, Lawrence Power turns to this repertoire with similar technical ease, and persuasively idiomatic tempo inflections and portamenti (slides). — BBC Music Magazine, August 2008, 5 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…

one idiomatic opportunity after another is seized on by Chloë Hanslip with panache, poise, and laser-like accuracy...My only reservation about these excellent performances concerns Danny Driver's... — BBC Music Magazine, July 2013, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Markova was just 25 years old when this debut recording was made, and on its evidence she is an artist we’ll be hearing considerably more of in the future. — BBC Music Magazine, March 2024, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Joseph Moog and Kai Adomeit are fully attuned to the more percussive aspects of Rachmaninov’s writing. In the outer sections of the f inal dance, they batter the listener with high voltage dynamically... — BBC Music Magazine, May 2023, 3 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 4 out of 5 stars (Recording) More…