"Amply gifted as an orchestral composer.....purified intensity, immediacy and unrestrained lyricism".

Paul Griffiths, The Sunday Times

"Brian thoroughly deserves to be recognised as one of the most impressive and consistent composers working today, both in large-scale works and smaller pieces – his standards never falter.”

Jane Manning, soprano

"Though he writes little...what he produces is immaculately achieved. Every inflection tells, the balance of sound is exact, and the sound seductive in the best traditions of glamorous 20th century orchestral writing.”

Paul Driver, The Sunday Times