What the papers say...

Sunday Times ...Eugene Onegin W.N.O - ".....the clarinet solos were glorious...." - Hugh Canning

The Telegraph... Die Fledermaus W.N.O - "...delicious clarinet playing in the Czardas..." - Malcolm Hayes

South Wales Echo... Mozart Concerto St Davids Hall - "A high point of the night was surely the impeccable playing of soloist Leslie Craven in the Mozart Clarinet Concerto....With a tone of burnished teak, the outer movements taken at quite a tempo and the miraculous slow movement has rarely sounded so utterly operatic and expressive." - AJ Sicluna

March 2007 - CASS review of Chris Ball cd, including concerto for clarinet and strings, with Les as soloist

Please click here to read a recent review of Leslie's book published in December 03 issue of "Clarinet & Saxophone" - The Clarinet and Saxophone Society of Great Britain's magazine.

The following link is a review of a concert given by the Welsh National Opera Clarinet Trio

Published article for CASS magazine by Alistair Logan
Review of Premiere of Concerto "Ambidexterity" for clarinet by Roma Cafolla