“Choosing between this Oboe Concerto and the sumptuous Nicholas Daniel/Richard Hickox version on Chandos is hard, but David Lloyd-Jones and Jonathan Small bring a degree of more nervous intensity and introverted subtlety that I found very convincing.” --BBC Music Magazine, April 2007 *****
“With two premiere recordings included, Alwyn enthusiasts cannot afford to be without this disc, which represents another notable success in Naxos’s championship of a still underrated composer. Roll on the chamber music later in the year.” --MusicWeb International, March 2007
“With two premiere recordings included, Alwyn enthusiasts cannot afford to be without this disc, which represents another notable success in Naxos’s championship of a still underrated composer. Roll on the chamber music later in the year.” --MusicWeb International, March 2007
“Those with a penchant for evocative English music will not be disappointed by this fifth volume of Naxos's cycle of the complete orchestral works by William Alwyn. The expert and imaginative scoring at the service of such works as The Innumerable Dance (1933) and Aphrodite in Aulius (1932), both world premiere recordings, makes one lament the absence of Alwyn's works in the concert hall. Contrast these with the Elgarian Festival March, the wistful Oboe Concerto and the exuberant Elizabethan Dances and you have another winner from this superb team.” --Classic FM, February 2007
