Ireland - Soliloquy

Eric Parkin's… is completely inside Ireland's idiom, well understanding the darker emotional complexities and yearnings that may underlie a seemingly casual phrase or carefree melodic line. — BBC Music Magazine, October 2008, 5 out of 5 stars More…

As in previous volumes, his impeccable phrasing, sensitivity to chord-colouring, and expressive identification with the music make this new disc probably the version of these pieces to go for...Bebbington... — BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2012, 5 out of 5 stars More…

[A Downland Suite is] felicitously served on this latest anthology from Warwickshire’s Orchestra of the Swan under David Curtis…I love the thrusting vigour of Curtis’s Prelude…and his shapely... — Gramophone Magazine, June 2016 More…

Comparative listening to the meaty Sonata that Ireland wrote between 1918 and 1920 (the one work common to all three releases) finds both Rowlands and Bebbington allowing themselves rather greater... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 More…

Roderick Williams declaims his own orcehstration of Annabel Lee rather well, and enjoys two robust sea songs — BBC Music Magazine, July 2010, 3 out of 5 stars More…

Captured in perfectly acceptable mono sound, Rowland's memorably intimate performances betoken a very special empathy for this repertoire. — Gramophone Magazine, October 2008 More…