Joseph Holbrooke: Sonata in F Major for Violin and Piano (“The Grasshopper”)

Granville Bantock: Sonata in F Major for Viola and Piano “COLLEEN”

(World Premiére recording - Performed on Gustav Holst’s viola)

Rupert Marshall-Luck (Violin and Viola); Matthew Rickard (Piano)

EM RECORDS (EMR CD003)

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“Heroically impressive piano playing”

MuiscWeb International

“Matthew Rickard’s piano-playing is also impressive”

Gramophone

Ralph Vaughan Williams: Sonata for Violin and Piano in A Minor

Gustav Holst: Five pieces for Violin and Piano (World Premiére recording)

Henry Walford Davies: Sonata for Violin and Piano in E-flat (World Premiére recording)

Rupert Marshall-Luck (Violin); Matthew Rickard (Piano)

EM RECORDS (EMR CD006)

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Piano Trio; Insomnia for Violin and Piano

Chaconne for Solo Viola; Valedictions for Cello and Piano

Sonata for Violin and Piano; Snowbound for Bass Clarinet, Cello and Piano

Matthew Rickard (Piano); Rupert Marshall-Luck (Violin/Viola);

Sophie Harris (Cello); Ian Mitchell (Bass Clarinet)

TOCCATA CLASSICS (TOCC 0150)

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Chosen as one of MusicWeb International’s “RECORDINGS OF THE YEAR 2011”

“This fine disc is a complete success and can be very warmly recommended to anyone with a serious interest in British music”

International Record Review

BBC Music Magazine

“Rickard negiotiates these demanding scores with aplomb”

The Strad

“The performances are committed and watertight of ensemble, and the notes are first class”

“Rickard has a fine sense of keyboard colour”

MusicWeb International

“Marshall-Luck and Rickard capture the Walford-Davies’ quintissential Englishness beautifully”

Gramophone

BBC Music Magazine

“Pickard’s music has a substance and durability which makes this disc required listening”

International Record Review

“A Remarkable disc”

Fanfare Magazine

Ivor Gurney: Sonata for Violin and Piano in E flat Major (World Premiére recording)

Lionel Sainsbury: Soliloquy for Solo Violin, Op.21

Sir Edward Elgar: Sonata for Violin and Piano in E Minor, Op.82

Rupert Marshall-Luck (Violin); Matthew Rickard (Piano)

EM RECORDS (EMR CD011)

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“First-rate release. More please”

British Music Society

“Marshall-Luck and Rickard display passion and poise in a deeply-felt reading”

MusicWeb International

“Gurney’s Sonata could hardly find better and more convincing exponents than Marshall-Luck and Rickard”

BBC Music Magazine

Sir Arthur Bliss: Sonata for Piano and Violin (World Premiére recording)

Sir Henry Walford Davies: Sonata in A for Violin and Piano (World Premiére recording)

York Bowen: Sonata in E Minor for Violin and Piano, Op. 112

Rupert Luck (Violin); Matthew Rickard (Piano)

EM RECORDS (EMR CD001)

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Granville Bantock:  Sonata No. 3 for Violin and Piano in C Major

Cyril Scott: Sonata for Viola and Piano (World Premiére recording)

Roger Sacheverell Coke: Sonata No. 1 for Violin and Piano in D Minor

(World Premiére recording)

Rupert Marshall-Luck (Violin); Matthew Rickard (Piano)

EM RECORDS (EMR CD018)

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“An excellent issue”

Gramophone

Sonata for Violin and Piano in B Minor (World Premiére recording)

Sonata for Violin and Piano No.1 in E Major, Op.18

Sonata for Violin and Piano No.2 in E-flat Major, Op.26

Sonata for Violin and Piano No.3 in E Minor, Op.18

Slow Air; Country Tune; Lento, assai espressivo (All World Premiére recordings)

Cradle Song, Op.9 No.1; Three Pieces for Violin and Piano, Op.28

Rupert Marshall-Luck (Violin); Matthew Rickard (Piano)

EM RECORDS (EMR CD019-20)

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“Marshall-Luck and Rickard need not fear competition”

MusicWeb International

“Matthew Rickard is equal to Howells’s challenging piano textures”

BBC Music Magazine

Arthur Somervell: Two Conversations about Bach for two violins and piano

(World Premiére recording)

Frederick Kelly: Sonata for Violin and Piano in G Major (World Premiére recording)

Arnold Bax: Second Sonata for Violin and Piano

Rupert Marshall-Luck (Violin); Matthew Rickard (Piano)

EM RECORDS (EMR CD030)

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