"... Gemma Rosefield plays magnificently, addressing the technical hurdles with assurance, her sterling musicianship and beautiful tone shaping the poetic episodes with sensitivity. This is good and likeable music. The concerto is rounded off with a ruminative slow movement and an amiable, rhythmically chirpy finale, the latter introduced with some typically distinctive and expressive writing for wind instruments. ... As suggested, Gemma Rosefield plays marvellously, all boxes ticked. She is afforded animated and sensitive accompaniments under Andrew Manze’s sympathetic guidance. To complete a fully annotated release that may well be musically revelatory, and is certainly first-class in its execution, the recording is tangible, excellently balanced and naturally sounded." (Classical Source.com)

'Rosefield plays with disarming character and freshness; her technique, too, is enviably sure and tone beguilingly rounded … Admirable sound and truthful balance; another Hyperion winner!' (Gramophone)

'Stanford's sturdy, Brahmsian Cello Concerto and the folksong-rich Third Irish Rhapsody are the highlights here, superbly played by Gemma Rosefield' (BBC Music Magazine)

'[Ballata and Ballabile] shows Stanford at his most elegant and melodious … The performance is refined and strongly characterised by Rosefield and the orchestral accompaniment under Andrew Manze is well caught in the lucid and warm recording. Anyone with an interest in Stanford should hear this most attractive disc, presenting an aspect of his output that is all put unknown and given committed advocacy here' (International Record Review)

'The giant is the well-crafted Cello Concerto in D minor, which cellist Gemma Rosefield plays with warm-hearted poeticism and unfussy sensibility … Rosefield, with impeccable support from Andrew Manze and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, makes an equally good case for the Rondo in F, the lyrical Ballata and Ballabile, and the melancholic Irish Rhapsody' (The Scotsman)

'Rosefield plays Stanford's music with a real feeling for period style, using graceful portamentos and displaying a deep lyricism … Rosefield's solo entry in the Cello Concerto is immediately notable for its graceful, delicate phrasing … her tone is full but not forceful … [she] never sacrifices beauty of tone in the bravura passages, and her playing of the Irish Rhapsody no. 3 exudes tenderness' (The Strad)

'The cello writing is superbly idiomatic, the orchestration deft and imaginatively coloured … Gemma Rosefield obviously has the technique to burn and is sensitive to mood and atmosphere … Andrew Manze brings unexpected authority to proceedings' (Classic FM Magazine)

"On this CD we hear his best known ( i.e. most performed ) work: Prospero’s Isle, played by its dedicatee Gemma Rosefield... ( She ) plays with authority and virtuosity, projecting the warmth of the music in the most benevolent fashion. All performances are committed and have great feeling for the intrinsic qualities of this music, summed up by a generosity of spirit and warmth of expression rare in music of any age."

Edward Clark, Musical Opinion, July-August 2011.