Champs Hill Records

[the Piano Quartet No. 1] is certainly winning in as engaging performance as it gets here. The London Bridge Trio bring this unfamiliar work to life as if it were an old friend, with expressive... — BBC Music Magazine, March 2016, 5 out of 5 stars More…

These are mostly excellent performances matching sweet string tone with a muscular approach to musical argument. The first movement of the B flat trio coudl have been more expansive, but the... — BBC Music Magazine, October 2012, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Appl has a baritone voice with its own character and a natural appreciation of the essentials of singing Lieder…he floats through Mendelssohn’s beautifully rippling ‘Schwanenlied’ with mellow... — Gramophone Magazine, May 2016 More…

Variety rules on this disc: this established all-male vocal group Cantabile slip easily from Vaughan Williams, Quilter and Elgar to Tom Bahler and Randy Newman...Some of the solo work just missed... — The Observer, 13th April 2014, 3 out of 5 stars More…

a demanding programme - both technically and musically challenging, and well recorded by a history of virtuosos. It's a risky strategy for a debut disc, but overall it pays off. She is clearly... — BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2012, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Cellist O’Kane is the star of this disc, sensitive and introspective in The Swan, then animated and robust Saint-Saens Sonata No. 1, in which he and McHale have a more even partnership. — BBC Music Magazine, May 2017, 4 out of 5 stars More…