‘If I were choosing just one track, tricky, it would be Ernö Dohnányi’s C major Rhapsody (from Opus 11), an impetuous gem played with élan and, in the gloriously ‘big’ romantic melody that emerges, a generous and communicative heart. Fab! Excellent sound, too. Another couple of releases like this and Hough will have his own version of Your Hundred Best Tunes’ (Classical Source)» More

‘It takes a personality of flair now to serve up a few bonbons in a recital and Stephen Hough is a master of the art … the skills needed to bring off a programme like this include sparkling virtuosity and the nonchalance to suggest it was all nothing really. Hough has both, like that magician of the keyboard, Shura Cherkassky, in the previous generation’ (Financial Times)» More

‘A lovely recording … a perfect vehicle for the current incarnation of The Nash Ensemble and they don't disappoint’ (BBC Record Review)

‘You'll be putty in the hands of Messrs Boden and Degout. Beautiful sounds, wonderfully recorded as well’ (BBC Record Review)

‘Excellent recorded sound sets the seal on another outstanding issue from this outstanding team’ (BBC Music Magazine)

‘This is an impressive disc, which repays repeated listening and can stand comparison with many of the biggest names’ (Gramophone)

‘Altogether it’s an exciting, intriguing reading, not least because of Lawrence Power’s notably lyrical, eloquent playing; you really feel this is an individual voice’ (BBC Music Magazine)» More

‘Power’s mellow tone makes for a poetic reading as the Byronic brooder, his echo of the opening theme as delicate as gossamer … Hyperion doesn’t place the viola too far into the spotlight. Berlioz would have approved’ (Gramophone)

‘It’s all exquisitely done, collegiate smoothness and blend to the fore. And what blend! The harmonic voicing is immaculate yet always sensitive to the imperatives of the polyphonic flow—witness the plight of Jerusalem, conveyed with such honeyed heart-breaking simplicity, in Byrd’s Ne irascaris, Domine. Haunting too is the hushed restraint of Robert White’s Compline hymn. Weavers of rich and plangent tapestries, The Gesualdo Six meld style and substance with beguiling sure-footedness. An auspicious debut’ (BBC Music Magazine)

‘It’s all exquisitely done, collegiate smoothness and blend to the fore. And what blend! The harmonic voicing is immaculate yet always sensitive to the imperatives of the polyphonic flow … weavers of rich and plangent tapestries, The Gesualdo Six meld style and substance with beguiling sure-footedness. An auspicious debut’ (BBC Music Magazine)

‘Martineau is predictably outstanding throughout, with deft pacing and his finely judged gradations of touch always lifting the voices … another rewarding instalment in an engrossing series’ (BBC Music Magazine)

‘Fretwork have been at the helm of viol consort playing for more than 30 years, and … they've lost none of their verve or polish—as this disc testifies. The players envelop you in a sound here silky, there velvety’ (BBC Music Magazine)