Browse: Stone Records (label)

Webb's fruity soprano is lithe and adventurous, tackling this little-heard repertoire with thoughtful poise and relish. Wickham is precise and sympathetic. This is an important series, noteworthy... — Limelight Magazine, September 2016, 5 out of 5 stars More…

The songs are performed throughout in an excellent style … always in fine vocal form … When a greatly gifted singer lends their artistry to such vocally-rewarding music as this, the result is... — Musical Opinion, Winter 2017 More…

..this is not a recital restricted to one vocal hue. Each song is looked at and receives relevant response from both singer and pianist. ….he (Mark Stone) introduces so much by way of nuance... — International Record Review, March 2009 More…

Stone's high, slightly grainy baritone and incisive diction deliver Quilter's often long, soaring lines with compelling fervour, and Barlow's fluent accompaniment is the opposite of the dreaded... — BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2014, 4 out of 5 stars More…

here is a situation where the quality of the music really does make its obscurity hard to understand...the composer's searching imagination, technical precision and sure self-knowledge all denote... — BBC Music Magazine, February 2013, 4 out of 5 stars More…

This odd grouping of classics from Vienna's First and Second Schools is so well played that one happily accepts its rather strained rationale; Shilyaev is a natural Beethovenian, but his Berg... — BBC Music Magazine, January 2015, 4 out of 5 stars More…

All of the performances on A Summer’s Day are exemplary; immaculately played, with a keen attention to style and instrumental timbres, and reproduced in gorgeous recorded sound. In addition to... — Fanfare, July/August 2022 More…