Campion Cameo

The common thread binding this enterprising CD together is not so much the music itself as the relationship between teacher and pupil...The more adventurous language of Reeves is closer to Grange... — MusicWeb International, March 2006 More…

Keith Swallow and John Wilson are quite clearly enjoying themselves. They play each piece ‘to the hilt’ and without any sense of condescension. Many of these numbers may be for young players... — MusicWeb International, May 2006 More…

Curtis’s music has been categorised as belonging to the British light music tradition and the booklet quotes him as believing that “there remains a great longing for more accessible contemporary... — Gramophone Magazine, June 2007 More…

There are plenty of attractive sounds, and plenty of technical wizardry in this delightful music and its performance, conceived around the idea of a railway journey through rural mid-Wales and... — MusicWeb International, April 2005 More…

Sutherland is a conductor who has been pivotal in the blooming British light music scene. This has rubbed off on this three movement composition which is in a patois that is sly, laid-back,... — MusicWeb International, January 2004 More…

There are serious moments: a courtly Greensleeves, virtuosic divisions on a Dowland song, a dreamy 'Chadkirk Idyll' from that much loved composer of light music, Ernest Tomlinson...But with... — MusicWeb International More…