Description: Paul Watkins, Cello , Cellist, Conductor, Emerson String Quartet
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“Watkins is fully up to all of the composer’s challenges […] this is surely the finest account [of the Walton concerto] that has ever been recorded, manifestly superior in sensitivity and virtuosic élan from any other […] of the highest musical grasp and understanding.”
Robert Matthew-Walker, International Record Review
"Britain's finest cellist, Watkins' account [of the Elgar concerto] seems the best to have appeared on disc for years. It has intensity, presence and warmth, which never topples over into sentimentality." Andrew Clements, The Guardian