Orchid Classics

Captivatingly phrased, strongly characterised and atmospherically recorded, Masin’s inspired programme appears to emerge languorously from a heat-haze. — BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2017, 4 out of 5 stars More…

…we can savour the extraordinary detail and subtle dovetailing of Korngold's orchestral writing as never before as Trusler weaves in and out of the textures with the heightened instincts of... — BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2009, 5 out of 5 stars More…

It’s hard not to be won over by this selection drawing together encore pieces arranged for cello and piano. It’s a beguiling programme, many familiar, others less-known, and all performed with... — BBC Music Magazine, December 2023, 4 out of 5 stars More…

[Carole Boyd and Zeb Soanes’s] alliance with the customarily attentive John Wilson and his razor-sharp seven-piece ensemble is infectiously enjoyable. Sitwell’s modernist verse is delivered... — Gramophone Magazine, June 2017 More…

If you need any convincing that the choice of title for this album is an appropriate one, just listen to the dreamy intermezzo of Poulenc’s sonata for violin and piano, FP 119: in the hands... — The Observer, 28th February 2016, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Wiggin is fast emerging as one of the UK’s star saxophonists. He brings a keen musical intelligence and a remarkably beautiful sound to these performances, ably accompanied by John Lenehan (piano)... — BBC Music Magazine, October 2018, 4 out of 5 stars/3 out of 5 stars More…

James Gilchrist and Anna Tilbrook take great care to sense the lightness of touch and the emotional fragility of these songs of vernal yearning...The performers' art really does conceal art:... — BBC Music Magazine, May 2011, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Gilchrist and Tilbrook deliver some of the more expansive songs very well...Gilchrist's voice is admirably suited to gentle, lyrical singing. — International Record Review, January 2012 More…