Orchid Classics

This recording makes a glorious 45 minutes, with immaculately seductive playing from the London Philharmonic Orchestra, and perfect segues from piece to piece – it all slips deliciously down. — BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2022, 5 out of 5 stars More…

The playing is consistently polished and elegant; the programme is charming, even undemanding, for the listener, so this would make a wonderful gift for a newcomer to the repertoire or aspiring... — BBC Music Magazine, May 2019, 4 out of 5 stars More…

encouraged by Freeman’s limpid touch, he finely captures the changing moods of the canticle My beloved is mine, from impassioned declamation to the stillness of ‘He is my Altar’ and the quiet... — Gramophone Magazine, October 2020 More…

I hope [Stravinsky] would be as stunned as I was: [Petrushka] sounds suitably orchestral in the hands of Bjarke Mogensen and Rasmus Schjærff Kjøller, and yet they also shed new light on it...A... — BBC Music Magazine, June 2013, 5 out of 5 stars More…

This is a fresh, consistently stimulating account of Ravel’s sonata, all the more effective for its avoidance of special pleading..[in the finale] Tomita and Callaghan hit a groove facilitating... — BBC Music Magazine, April 2022, 4 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 5 out of 5 stars (Recording) More…

Shirinyan joins the most admired Chopinists in her embrace of the music’s contradictions and, more importantly, its imaginative reach. Once you hear her play, you are unlikely to forget her. — Fanfare, Nov/Dec 2023 More…

A very fine pianist with a beguiling voice; here is a rare talent. — BBC Music Magazine, September 2021, 5 out of 5 stars More…

All handsomely sung: there’s not a single dud track on this album — The Arts Desk, December 2019 More…

At a time when many opera singers are out of work and chances to hear the full-throttle human voice in all its glory are few, a new recital disc as good as this one feels more than usually like... — The Guardian, 1st October 2020, 4 out of 5 stars More…