‘I listened to it this week, and was moved to something dangerously adjacent to tears … what you chiefly hear in Coles’s compositions is nobility, haunting beauty and a strange, almost prophetic sense of tragedy’ (The Times)

‘A fascinating and rewarding discovery … performances, production and presentation are all past praise, and this is a disc already earmarked for my Critics’ Choice come the year’s end’ (Gramophone)

«Les interprétations de Brabbins sont proches de l’idéal et les musiciens écossais servent leur compatriote avec ferveur et précision» (Monde de La Musique)

‘The music is solemn, poignant and majestic in conductor Brabbins’ orchestration … a genius? Yes, I think so. A great loss to music? Absolutely’ (MusicWeb International)

‘The work’s surviving fragments receive their premiere recording on this Hyperion disc, which sees Martyn Brabbins and the BBC Scottish Symphony doing a terrific job on behalf of the composer’ (Music Week)

‘Dedicated performances beautifully recorded and fervently commended’ (Yorkshire Post)

‘His music, touched by post-echoes of Brahms, Mendelssohn and Wagner, yet speaking unmistakably in its own accent, lives on in this outstandingly recorded new issue’ (HMV Choice)

‘Excellent singing and committed playing on this disc’ (BBC Music Magazine)

‘Coles emerges as one of the great lost hopes of British music’ (The Independent)

‘This handsomely presented disc is a rarity worth investigating’ (The Observer)

‘The six pieces recorded here justify the mourning of an unfulfilled talent’ (International Record Review)

‘It surely deserves a place in the repertory: English music has nothing quite like it’ (The Sunday Telegraph)