Press Quotations
"You might think from its title that Colin Matthews' Horn Concerto is a conventional work. Nothing could be further from the truth. For a start, the soloist, here the excellent Richard Watkins, is shadowed by a posse of four orchestral horns players who pop up in different parts of the hall."
Evening Standard, London
18 July 2006
"This impressive composition (Colin Matthews: Horn Concerto) was magically played by the soloist Richard Watkins ..."
Sunday Telegraph, London
29 April 2001
"There was a golden blaze on Watkins’s sonority whenever the music (Colin Matthews: Horn Concerto) allowed it, and he made the complex intonation flawlessly smooth."
Sunday Times, London
29 April 2001
"Richard Watkins’s performance of this most beguiling work (Colin Matthews: Horn Concerto) was faultless, his control masterly, his sense of line most expressive, and his tone firm but sensitive."
Independent, London
25 April 2001
"Matthews was moved to write a horn concerto by Watkins’s artistry, and the wonderful legato and supple phrasing that his soloist produced must have delighted him ..."
Guardian, London
23 April 2001
"Richard Watkins ... delivered its (Maxwell Davies: Horn concerto) two appallingly difficult opening flourishes with an assurance that made what followed seem quite straightforward."
Sunday Telegraph, London
7 May 2000
"Richard Watkins constantly impressed with his committed playing, demonstrating superb control in the concerto's (Maxwell Davies: Horn Concerto) magical ending..."
The Independent, London
5 May 2000
"...Richard Watkins ... plays with consummate eloquence and skill."
(Ethel Smyth: Concerto for Horn, Violin and Orchestra / Chandos)
The Times, London
15 May 1996
"The solo performance (Mozart: Horn Concerto) of Richard Watkins was a superb amalgam of technical perfection and artistic commitment."
The Telegraph, Belfast
22 October 1994
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