Vaughan Williams: Complete Symphonies / The Wasps (Overture) / Flos campi / etc

"Kees Bakels draws ravishing sounds from the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, notably the strings, with the Scherzo cleanly pointed and the slow movement both warm-hearted and refined, and with pianissimos that have you catching the breath." Penguin Guide (Sym 2)

"Vaughan William's abrasive Fourth Symphony emergies in Paul Daniel's powerful performance as one of the most vital of Vaughan Williams's works at once chilling and lyrical in its forward thrust." Penguin Guide (Sym 4)

"Kees Bakels and the Bournemouth SO are themselves impressive but their disc also contains the literary extracts with which Vaughan Williams headed each movement, spoken with real feeling by David Timson and sensibly recorded on separate tracks." Gramophone (Syms 7 & 8)

"[Paul Daniel] proves to be a worthy contender - one informed by both imagination and zeal. In his drive, attention to detail in matters of orchestral articulation, and in his no-nonsense phrase shaping, he often comes closest to Boult...On balance, Daniel's is an unabashedly youthful take on this monumental score. His greatest virtue is in that he moves things forward with vigor, informs everything with raw enthusiasm...he approaches this score with, like the venerable Boult, a sense of boyish discovery...each generation has to come to grips anew with this music, and here Daniel does so splendidly." Fanfare (Sym 1)