‘Maintains in each and every bar the high standards of the previous release’ (BBC Music Magazine)

‘Immediately appealing. Stephen Varcoe is the perfect singer for this repertoire. A treasure of a disc’ (Fanfare, USA)

‘The cello writing is superbly idiomatic, the orchestration deft and imaginatively coloured … Gemma Rosefield obviously has the technique to burn and is sensitive to mood and atmosphere … Andrew Manze brings unexpected authority to proceedings’ (Classic FM Magazine)

‘Rosefield plays Stanford's music with a real feeling for period style, using graceful portamentos and displaying a deep lyricism … Rosefield's solo entry in the Cello Concerto is immediately notable for its graceful, delicate phrasing … her tone is full but not forceful … [she] never sacrifices beauty of tone in the bravura passages, and her playing of the Irish Rhapsody No 3 exudes tenderness’ (The Strad)

‘The giant is the well-crafted Cello Concerto in D minor, which cellist Gemma Rosefield plays with warm-hearted poeticism and unfussy sensibility … Rosefield, with impeccable support from Andrew Manze and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, makes an equally good case for the Rondo in F, the lyrical Ballata and Ballabile, and the melancholic Irish Rhapsody’ (The Scotsman)

‘Stanford's sturdy, Brahmsian Cello Concerto and the folksong-rich third Irish Rhapsody are the highlights here, superbly played by Gemma Rosefield’ (BBC Music Magazine)

‘The [Ballata and Ballabile] shows Stanford at his most elegant and melodious … the performance is refined and strongly characterised by Rosefield and the orchestral accompaniment under Andrew Manze is well caught in the lucid and warm recording. Anyone with an interest in Stanford should hear this most attractive disc, presenting an aspect of his output that is all but unknown and given committed advocacy here’ (International Record Review)

‘Rosefield plays with disarming character and freshness; her technique, too, is enviably sure and tone beguilingly rounded … admirable sound and truthful balance; another Hyperion winner!’ (Gramophone)

‘These lovely pieces are played most expressively by a sweet-toned Anthony Marwood … two unexpected gems that deserve to reclaim their place on the concert platform alongside the works of Elgar’ (The Independent on Sunday)

‘A discovery of major importance. First class … this masterful work speaks with a distinctly beautiful voice and has a perfect advocate in Marwood and the BBC SSO’ (Gramophone)

‘Rarely have I heard intonation so ringingly true, nor such an affecting chamber-like response with an orchestra in music of this period. This is the kind of playing that one can listen to for pleasure simply because of its ravishing, jewel-like tonal quality … an outstanding release’ (International Record Review)

‘Anthony Marwood gives a blistering account’ (The Independent)