Hi Res Download, Stanford (composer)

The relative smallness of piano trio repertory is partly due to the medium's balance difficulties...Such is Stanford's skill in the Piano Trio No. 2 that the problem seems not to exist: its... — BBC Music Magazine, April 2015, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Collins and McHale make a convincing case for these attractive scores. One senses that Collins is a sensitive musician. He certainly has impressive breath control and produces an attractive... — MusicWeb International, June 2012 More…

Their performances of the quintets are exemplary; executed with the utmost precision, impeccably balanced voices, lush in tone, and phrased with great care and affection. Jenkinson partners... — Fanfare, July/August 2021 More…

The Dante Quartet’s performances are superbly stylish and accurate; the First Quartet is led by second violinist Oscar Perks, who delivers every bit as impressively as leader Krysia Osostowicz... — BBC Music Magazine, March 2020, 4 out of 5 stars More…

An engaging album, ranging from the geniality of Bax’s 1934 Sonata to Christopher Moriarty’s unsettling mysterious Opaque Rhapsody. — BBC Music Magazine, June 2018, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Here is Stanford’s idiom at its most likeable, and least prolix…the Dante’s performances offer verve and precision, with immaculate recorded sound to match — BBC Music Magazine, February 2017, 4 out of 5 stars More…

These are distinctive, fully achieved works by a composer with a profoundly serious artistic purpose. They’re each worth hearing, and the Dante Quartet go at them with red-blooded gusto and... — Gramophone Magazine, October 2018 More…