‘This recording is the best yet … the recorded sound succeeds phenomenally … superb orchestral playing right across the board. All four soloists excel at seizing the moment in their few, but spectacular opportunities … memorable listening indeed’ (BBC Music Magazine)

‘A good mid-price introduction to a fascinating composer’ (The Independent)

‘A record collection of British orchestral music lacking anything by Havergal Brian would be significantly incomplete and this is the right record to fill that gap’ (Music and Musicians)

‘The performance is powerful, the recording superb’ (The New York Times)

‘The Raphael Ensemble plays with passion and sensitivity and is beautifully recorded’ (Fanfare, USA)

«L'enthousiasme des Raphael, justement signataires d'une splendide gravure des deux quintettes de Brahms, ne se dément pas: les contrastes dûment accentués et la beauté de leur sonorité vont au-delà des intentions de l'auteur: ils transforment l'essai talentueux d'un novice en un cru que l'on attribuerait aux meilleures années» (Diapason, France)

‘A splendid album … one could not imagine [the Phantasy Piano Quartet] receiving a a more potent performance than this—understandable when the string players alongside pianist Ian Brown include violist Lawrence Power and cellist Paul Watkins’ (The New Zealand Herald)

‘This Nash Ensemble programme identifies a master of chamber music and a composer of fearless individuality’ (The Daily Telegraph)

‘The Violin Sonata is a work of profound seriousness and the very fine performance by Marianne Thorsen and Ian Brown makes the strongest possible case for it … this new Nash Ensemble account [of the Phantasy Piano Quartet] is warm-hearted, imaginatively nuanced and revealing that Bridge's musical language always had a European rather than a specifically British flavour … this is a most eloquently and beautifully controlled performance [of the Cello Sonata] … in short, this is an uncommonly fine record of Bridge, superbly recorded and enhanced by Hindmarsh's authoritative notes’ (International Record Review)

‘A beautifully played and thoughtfully programmed disc … includes the superb Violin Sonata of 1932, for which rival versions are still few and far between … this is an example of Bridge's high maturity, chromatically expanded in tonality and simultaneously dense and subtle in its motivic working. Marianne Thorsen's interpretation with Ian Brown seems to me absolutely exemplary’ (BBC Music Magazine)

‘Paul Watkins delivers lovely, fluent melodic lines in the Cello Sonata … the rarity here is the Violin Sonata … it comes across with impassioned climaxes from Marianne Thorsen and Ian Brown. There are authoritative notes from Paul Hindmarsh, and the Hyperion recorded quality is a dream’ (Gramophone)

‘An important and fascinating disc, which anyone interested in 20th-century music should hear’ (The Guardian)