Concertos, Cor Anglais Concertos

The performance [of Lyra Angelica] here is very moving, and the recording has great richness of string tone and a delicately balanced harp texture. Rachel Masters's contribution is distinguished. — Penguin Guide, 2011 edition More…

Peteris Vask's music is a beguiling mixture, poised somewhere on a tightrope between Sibelius and Arvo Pärt… the three pieces on this new release all exude beautiful and sometimes ravishing... — BBC Music Magazine, August 2008, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Mayer performs them with the suave elegance and sustained beauty of tone you would expect from the Berlin Philharmonic’s principal oboe — The Guardian, 26th February 2015, 3 out of 5 stars More…

Each of these performances matches the mint-condition precision of the music itself, with Philip Dukes a memorable soloist in the Pastoral Fantasia. — BBC Music Magazine, September 2008, 4 out of 5 stars More…

…An American Place… is not mere cut-and-paste assemblage. Its 19 minutes are cogently argued, tuneful, and bear a strong individual imprint. More pastoral, more alluringly sensuous in its... — BBC Music Magazine, October 2005 More…

a sequence of attractive works in a relatively conservative idiom...[The Idyll and Divertimento are] beautifully played by the Manchester Sinfonia conducted by the composer. — Gramophone Magazine, May 2010 More…