"Monti's Csardas of course sounds appropriately passionate: and when it gets going the 48 players clearly enjoy their own virtuosity: the result is exhilarating" Gramophone

"Stand out track is Shostakovich's Romance from The Gadfly which demonstrates how an effective melody can benefit from an arrangement sympathetic to colourful harmonies" Classic CD

Eight tracks from the forty-eight first violins of the London Philharmonic, Royal Philharmonic and Philharmonia Orchestras.