"An invaluable and enormously rewarding release, in sum, enthusiastically recommended."
Andrew Achenbach, The Gramophone, January 2000
The Gramophone Editor's Choice January 2000

"Osostowicz and Dussek ... empathetic rapport generates performances of flawless integrity and insight."
Michael Jameson, BBC Music Magazine, March 2000

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"With eminently truthful sound and balance throughout, this enterprising collection deserves a warm welcome."
Andrew Aschenbach, The Gramophone, February 2001

The Gramophone Editor's Choice - February 2001

"Another valuable rescue-act within Dutton's nicely expanding Epoch series. First-rate performances of some appealing cello rarities."
The Gramophone, February 2001

*** The Penguin Guide to CDs and DVDs 2003-4 edition

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“Here is an example of a record company getting everything right. An outstanding artist playing worthy yet neglected repertoire in beautifully recorded sound.”
Jeremy Siepmann, BBC Music Magazine, October 2001

“Although all these pieces do exist in various other versions, Michael Dussek’s fine survey is undoubtedly the one to have.”
*** The Penguin Guide to CDs and DVDs 2003-4 edition

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“Dutton deserves many congratulations in making them [String Quartets] available in such excellent performances.”
“Recommended with enthusiasm.”
*** The Penguin Guide to CDs and DVDs 2003-4 edition

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“Three more superb chamber-works ... bear out the quality of Bowen’s writing, a composer never afraid to to write a good tune ... in outstanding performances like these. ... The Horn Quintet is a glorious piece, with Stephen Stirling magnificent in the central horn part. ... One looks forward to hearing much more.”
*** The Penguin Guide to CDs and DVDs 2003-4 edition

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“The performances (by three superb musicians) are magnificent – pure, nuanced, expressive, even exalted. Dutton’s sonics are wonderful: full, vivid, natural, immediate. On every level – music, performance, recording – this is one of the best recordings of modern chamber music you will ever hear.”
American Record Guide

*** The Penguin Guide to CDs and DVDs 2003-4 edition

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"The performances are excellent, spontaneous, committed and always at home in the locality of the writing. Excellent recording, too. If you love music that breathes the English countryside, you will find it in Dunhill’s chamber music; the Endymion players create just this evocation."
The Gramophone, Awards 2005

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"... the E major Violin Sonata is ... gigantic in scale and presents many technical difficulties. McAslan rises to the occassion handsomely and is accompanied skillfully by Michael Dussek. The general feeling I got ion first hearing was a gorgeous work, not bombastic. Lewis Foreman's notes fill you in nicely. One can only hope that more violinists will explore this fine piece now that it is on records."
"For those who like the early-20th century school of English music, this CD is for you. Highly recommended."
Delian, October 2006

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"Michael Dussek negotiates the note splattered [Piano Concerto], Scharwenkian terrain with infectious bravado and sensitivity, and 'Tod' Handley directs with all his customary sympathy andunderstanding."
"It is wonderful to hear Lorraine McAslan [Violin Concerto] ... playing with the kind of dashing swagger, vibrato intensity and quicksilver portamento that distinguished Heifetz's concerto recordings of the 1950s. It is a mesmerising performance captured in opulent sound."
Julian Haylock, BBC Music Magazine, July 2006

"Such lavish extravagance of melody and sentiment"
"This has to be among the 'Recordings of the Year'."
Rob Barnett, Recording of the Month, www.musicweb-international.com, July 2006

"I was extremely pleased with the well balanced sound quality from the Dutton engineers and the booklet notes from Lewis Foreman are as first class as I have come to expect. This well presented Dutton Epoch release is a revealing survey of the charming and colourful sound world of York Bowen.
Music of eloquent beauty that will lift the spirits. A valuable release that will be one of my ‘Records of the Year’."
Michael Cookson, www.musicweb-international.com, June 2006

"Michael Dussek displays scintillating tone and a fine technique."
"Lorraine McAslan's warm patrician tone (which brings to mind that of Heifetz) and caressing manner is all one could ask from an advocate of the Violin Concerto. Handley leads with authority"
"... with excellent sound and zealous liner notes, this ione's a must for the Violin Concerto."
Barry Brenesal, Fanfare, March/April 2007

"Lorraine McAslan is a very accomplished solist who gives a very sympathetic reading with plenty of brilliance and a fine tone drawn from her Andrea Guarneri violin of 1691."
"Michael Dussek ... has a good deal of sympathy for the composer. He has fine, compact tone and a very clean technique."
Joseph A Magil, American Record Guide, March/April 2007

"Here is a major recording with some big names including two of Dutton's regulars: Michael Dussek and Lorraine McAslan. Getting Vernon Handley and the BBC Concert Orchestra is a coup in itself. Watford Town Hall was the recording site, and as expected, Lewis Foreman wrote the excellent notes."
"Do go for this one."
The Delian, October 2006

"York Bowen is certainly getting a lot of play lately, and one listen to these sassy, quasi-jazzy, fluid romantic concertos and you will know why."
"Who else could conduct this music like Vernon Handley? His control of the excellent BBC Concert Orchestra only demonstrates that in English music he has few peers. And almost as peerless is the great sound now becoming a standard with Dutton Records' new recordings."
Steven Ritter, Audiophile Audition, 27 February 2007

"Delightful fare from a hugely respected teacher and master craftsman."
"These uniformly understanding performances have been beautifully engineered, and this is indeed a desirable anthology, expertly annotated by Lewis Foreman and jointly sponsored by the RVW Trust and the RCM."
Andrew Achenbach, Gramophone, March 2007

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"The indefatigable champion of British music, Vernon Handley, here presents a strong case for one of the 20th century's semi-forgotten figures, enhanced by the pianistic panache of Michael Dussek."
"Its [the music on this disc's] combination of succulence, brilliance and strong melodic threads, coupled with the sensitivity and spirit of these performances, ought to win new admirers for two imaginative concertos and a Symphonic Fantasia of Straussian lyricism and verve."
Geoffrey Norris, The Daily Telegraph, 7 August 2007

"This is high-Victorian musical rhetoric, full of good breeding and good taste…the Lisztian piano writing sparkles, the orchestration is transparent…The BBC Concert Orchestra plays as if it believes in this stuff; Michael Dussek plays with energy but also a light touch – a good idea, for heaviness in this self-important music would be fatal."
Sullivan, American Record Review

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Dutton Epoch’s expansive York Bowen series continues with the two-piano music in a cheering and invigorating programme, brilliantly played by Michael Dussek and John Reid. Even more than the solo piano music, York Bowen’s writing for two pianos in the Second Sonata, the Theme and Variations and three concert encores is powerful and rewarding. To complete the programme Michael Dussek also plays a solo encore, the heart-on-sleeve Rhapsody Op.8, which is terrific, barnstorming young man’s music. This is a cracker of a programme!

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