Somm

There’s a lovely old-school, almost Ferrier-esque quality to this young Liverpudlian mezzo’s timbre, as evinced by her upcoming Sea Pictures with Vasily Petrenko, and it suits Harty’s pleasantly... — Katherine Cooper, Presto Music, June 2020 More…

This charming and generously filled disc, including several first recordings, should help to rectify the neglect of these attractive vignettes since the composer’s death. — BBC Music Magazine, October 2022, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Mark Bebbington's… approach to the brooding and combative Piano Sonata is to give the harmony time enough to breathe, in order to go more intensely into its emotional life. The depressive aspects... — BBC Music Magazine, October 2008, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Britten's last quartet has been lucky in its recordings… With the Coull there's a sense of searching and effort, which suits the pain of the music more than the complete technical assurance... — BBC Music Magazine, September 2007, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Some of the songs are set in an almost epigrammatic fashion, so that the listener’s attention is never allowed to waver. A. E. Housman’s A Shropshire Lad has often been set to music, but Somervell... — Fanfare, Nov/Dec 2020 More…

The playing, both individually and collectively, is impeccable and the result is a very significant recording indeed. — Early Music Review More…

This disc is a musical time capsule in many ways, above all for Ferrier’s divine singing under Walter’s baton of Das Lied von der Erde… ‘Der Abschied’ is magical: her voice is so fresh, gloriously... — BBC Music Magazine, June 2020, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Sonatas Nos 1 and 4 benefit from the expressive eloquence of Rachel Brown's flute, and in the opening Andante of the B minor, she and Adrian Butterfield converse with flirtatious suppleness... — BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2009, 4 out of 5 stars More…