"Sir Andrew Davis conducts Music Makers very well indeed. It's not an easy score to bring off but he presents it as a fine and coherent work. O'Shaughnessy's verses are of their time, shall we say, but Elgar works a kind of musical alchemy on them and the result is a strongly personal and very rewarding work. It's magnificently performed here and, with opulent Chandos sound presenting the music-making in the best possible light, I think I would say that, as with The Spirit of England, this now becomes the prime recommendation for this important Elgar score".