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Adrian Butterfield’s sweetly focused violin tone and Silas Wollston’s elegant accompanying are well matched. — BBC Music Magazine, May 2023, 4 out of 5 stars More…

The best of the historic recordings, overflowing with colour and charm. Made half a century ago and now with beautifully remastered sound. — BBC Music Magazine, June 2008 More…

there's a good deal of vim and vigour about the first movement's Allegro, the Andante's variations are amiably presented and there's a welcome sense of edgy tension at the outset of the finale…Philip... — Gramophone Magazine, April 2016 More…

Sung shines in the lyrical episodes of Vaughan Williams’s Violin Concerto…Hesketh’s richly colourful and evocative orchestral soundscapes in Inscription-Transformation, composed specifically... — BBC Music Magazine, February 2020, 4 out of 5 stars More…

O the pleasure of discovering these songs in performances as good as these — Gramophone Magazine More…

Denys Darlow conducts a fresh stylish performance with his London Handel Festival forces, recorded live at the Royal College of Music. Textures are clean and rhythms light and resilient, with... — Penguin Guide, 2010, 3 out of 4 stars More…