Wigmore Hall Live

The fusion of dark and light, melancholy and joy, makes her Mahler particularly special. Here, the force of sadness is miraculously integrated with the high beauty of the voice… Geoffrey Parsons…answers... — BBC Music Magazine, May 2006, 5 out of 5 stars More…

It's Maltman's superb breath control which gives shape and sensuous beauty to Debussy and Dupare. And, thanks to Drake's restraining pace, Warlock's Captain Stratton's Fancy' has real swagger.... — BBC Music Magazine, February 2008, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Toby Spence's singing in Dies Natalis is… rather special. On the one hand his musical phrasing is beautiful: the lines hover and soar just as they should. Yet at the same time he brings freshness... — BBC Music Magazine, April 2008, 5 out of 5 stars More…

The tenor puts together a stimulating mixture of the familiar and unfamiliar, and is supported with unerring sensitivity and skill at the piano by Julius Drake…At no stage, either, does one... — Gramophone Magazine, December 2017 More…

The Polish-born American singer Ewa Podles is something of a cult figure, a true contralto of a quality rare nowadays. …she makes 'None but the lonely heart' remarkably touching and unhackneyed,... — BBC Music Magazine, April 2009, 4 out of 5 stars More…