Champs Hill Records

Dariescu communicates [the Boulanger’s] brooding atmosphere, imaginative register deployment and shattering climactic descending passages in octaves…Fauré’s Op. 103 Preludes further demonstrate... — Gramophone Magazine, May 2019 More…

[The Gould Trio's] players follow the composer's directions to the letter, bringing a natural flow to the various difficult changes in tempo in the first movement and mapping its emotional narrative... — BBC Music Magazine, February 2011, 5 out of 5 stars More…

I particularly appreciate Manuel Walser’s warm, flexible sound, which fuses clarity of text with Mendelssohn’s beautiful musical lines. Susana Gaspar’s rich voice brings grandeur to the repertoire.... — BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2017, 4 out of 5 stars More…

[de Pledge] brings to this CD his trademark transparency of touch. The sound is bright and firm as he beings the first promenade, and 'Gnomus' emerges with expansive breadth...And so it goes,... — BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2012, 4 out of 5 stars More…

The whimsical performance of Charles Ives’s ‘The Children’s Hour’ which opens the recital sets high standards of interpretation, John’s mellifluous singing offset by Vann’s tenderly undulating... — BBC Music Magazine, July 2021, 4 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 5 out of 5 stars (Recording) More…

there’s a lot more to this recital than elegiac gloom. A fine showcase of double bass virtuosity, in fact. — BBC Music Magazine, August 2021, 4 out of 5 stars More…

these are careful and insightful performances of pieces whose identities are predicated upon profoundly different principles...In fact, all three sonatas are conjoined by [the] need to combine... — Gramophone Magazine, December 2014 More…

There’s a heartfelt quality to Jamal Aliyev’s playing that comes across strongly on this debut disc. — BBC Music Magazine, May 2017, 3 out of 5 stars More…