‘The Abbey Choir … give an excellent account of themselves, the trebles especially singing with the confidence of professional musicianship and with voices in fine, generous bloom. In some of the short, quieter pieces, such as They are at rest and Ecce sacerdos magnus, they achieve a standard as near perfection as any. And Robert Quinney is a tremendous asset: an organist who puts his technical skill to imaginative use, sometimes … to vivid effect. Recorded sound is both clear and spacious, and the authoritative booklet contains some evocative period photographs’ (Gramophone)

‘The most impressive items are Great is the Lord and Give unto the Lord, two powerfully expressive large-scale anthems composed just before the First World War. Their texts allow Elgar to explore a wide range of choral and organ effects in the service of some vividly graphic word-painting, which Westminster Abbey Choir bring to life with obvious relish’ (The Daily Telegraph)

'Thoughtfully programmed, compellingly played, Quinney's Elgar entices' (BBC Music Magazine)» More

‘The well-named Goldner Quartet capture those golden sounds—and the piece's elegiac moods—in an exquisitely nuanced way. The Quintet, more extrovert despite its moving adagio, gets brilliant playing from Lane’ (The Sunday Times)

‘This is one of those rare discs that gives pleasure and food for thought in equal measure … it has rarely been done as well as here. Even The Nash Ensemble don’t match the delicate, nervous sensibility the Goldner Quartet bring to the String Quartet's deceptively 'peaceful' slow movement, nor the depth of secret sadness they and Lane find in the Piano Quintet's ghostly opening … all round, a new top recommendation’ (BBC Music Magazine)

‘The Goldner String Quartet judges the Elgar idiom persuasively, finding that blend of sensibility and muscularity, wistful meditation and optimistic motivation … played with distinction, and with a secure grasp of the give and take of pulse that is integral to Elgar’s music’ (The Daily Telegraph)

‘The String Quartet and Piano Quintet make an ideal pairing … the Quartet is delicately charming, with an exquisite Elgarian touch that the Goldners capture most sympathetically, without sentimentalising it. They also give an excellent performance with Piers Lane of the better known, much more dramatic Piano Quintet, tracing its mood swings seamlessly and handling the great Adagio with the unaffected restraint it deserves’ (Financial Times)

‘Once again Piers Lane and the Goldner String Quartet gives us something very special’ (Classical Source)

‘The Quintet is given real stature in this very fine recording, with the Goldners and Piers Lane revelling in the expansive themes of the opening moderato and the unashamedly romantic Adagio. The Goldners bring the same emotional intensity to the febrile Quartet with its shifting tonality and quirky rhythmic scheme, before Lane presents some fascinating miniatures’ (The Observer)

‘This fine account [of the Piano Quintet] by Piers Lane and the Goldner Quartet demonstrates it's full of highly expressive, authentically Elgarian tunes. The Goldners' account of the Quartet is finely fluent, too, and in both works they resist the temptation to over-egg the climaxes’ (The Guardian)

‘Two fine Elgar offerings … such observant, poised and (above all) irresistibly communicative playing’ (Gramophone)

«Interprétation idéale» (Diapason, France)