From the first folk-like theme the Piano Quartet of the teenage Walton breathes pure English Pastoral – an impression only reinforced by the heat-haze of the delicious slow movement.

he glittering tinsel of a seasonal Clare College this year outshines its better-known neighbour, Kings, with a spectacular concert of music set to become the star of this year’s burgeoning collection of Christmas releases.

This is a uniquely interesting recording from Australia. It brings together, in one place, organ compositions by many late nineteenth and early twentieth century composers. Some are largely forgotten…

The Dante Quartet has already made outstanding recordings of Stanford’s String Quartets. This is a worthy introduction to the music of a fine composer who surely deserves to be heard more often.

This beautifully produced SACD unites three disparate English works which are seldom heard in concert, and certainly not on the same programme.

This lacklustre trio of prosaic string pieces don’t happily co-exist together, especially under the grandiosely overblown title of this release. An odd mix of works by those well-regarded British composers, Elgar, Parry and Jacob, certainly make uneasy bedfellows…