INTERNATIONAL RECORD REVIEW 'OUTSTANDING' AWARD SUNDAY TIMES CLASSICAL CD OF THE WEEK '[Violin Concerto] A lithe, spiky, rhythmical performance, bristling with satire in the Shostakovich style … Every phrase is highly charged … [Double Concerto] Marwood and his viola colleague Lawrence Power prove to be the most outgoing soloists on disc so far … There is an extra spontaneity here that helps give this youthful music a welcome lift. With the rich-toned Power returning to give an eloquent performance of Lachrymae, this disc offers a trio of highly characterful performances' (Gramophone) 'This is a highly distinguished recording, very intelligently planned and exceptionally well executed … Performances which it would be difficult to imagine could be improved on … [Violin Concerto] Magnificently set out for us by Anthony Marwood and Ilan Volkov … [Double Concerto] The performance on this disc by Marwood and Lawrence Power revelas it to be an astonishing achievement as a work of art on several levels … [Lachrymae] The finest performance I have ever heard, live or on disc' (International Record Review) '[Violin Concerto] A bittersweet, sinuously virtuosic account of a work that repays repeated listening and vindicates Britten's faith in it … A brilliantly planned, played and orchestrated release' (The Sunday Times) [Violin Concerto] 'Anthony Marwood makes the best possible case for it in this new recfording … Has the opening Moderato's edgy lyricism ever sounded so tantalisingly seductive? Marwood goes on to capture the sinewy vitality of the middle movement and, no less brilliantly, the quixotic moods fo the closing Passacaglia, where Volkov's tensile accompaniments are spot-on' (The Financial Times) '[Double Concerto] A rarity… Energetic and characterful, and emerges strongly from the performance of the soloists here. But it is quite overshadowed in originality and richness by the Violin Concerto of seven years later' (The Daily Telegraph) 'Anthony Marwood, in one of the most gripping acounts of recent times … careful pacing, agile bow-work and careful tonal manipulation … [Double Concerto] Marwood and Lawrence Power are ideally matched … and they make a convincing case for the concerto … A well-recorded disc, in which Ilan Volkov and the BBC Symphony Orchestra provide bitingly visceral support throughout' (The Strad) 'Marwood is a vivacious soloist in the Violin Concerto and particularly compelling in its magnificent Passacaglia, which is expertly paced … We are left in no doubt about the levels of searing commitment behind Marwood's performance' (BBC Music Magazine) 'Ilan Volkov’s BBC Scottish SO relish the first movement’s spiky, quirky invention and are a superb foil for Anthony Marwood in the central danse macabre. Britten’s masterstroke was to close the concerto with a haunting large scale Passacaglia, which resolves into a typically ambivalent manner. Marwood’s handling of the closing pages induces shivers, gently rocking between major and minor. It’s a compelling work, and this is a wonderful recording' (TheArtsDesk.com)