Clarke, Rebecca - I'll Bid My Heart Be Still

Each track is sensitively crafted, with beauty of tone paramount and a warm, closely recorded sound…O’Connor’s high notes shine…while Peregrine’s solos at the beginning and end sound as expressive... — The Strad, August 2024 More…

There’s a visionary grandeur to [the Rhapsody], a sonata in all but name. In comparison to the restless modality of her Viola Sonata. It’s not only case on a bigger canvas but is also harmonically... — BBC Music Magazine, September 2016, 4 out of 5 stars More…

…Dukes and his colleagues… present an attractive, rounded (and clearly recorded) portrait of a composer whose music is well worth getting to know. — BBC Music Magazine, April 2007, 4 out of 5 stars More…

This is a volatile, passionately committed performance, the ebb and flow of energies managed with instinctive fluency. Violist Diana Bonatesta relishes the marvellous range of timbres so expertly... — BBC Music Magazine, June 2016, 3 out of 5 stars More…

...there’s a fair amount of genuine, sensitive musicianship here, too. Piston and her long-term musical partner Harpa work together well, though it has to be said Piston sounds more comfortable... — BBC Music Magazine, July 2004, 3 out of 5 stars More…