Champs Hill Records

this excellent group...offers a generously wide range of 19th- and 20th-century music, much of it unfamiliar, all of it diverting...it is Astor Piazzolla who is chosen to provide the unpredictable... — Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2011 More…

[Broderick’s] steely soprano and declamatory way with words serve her wonderfully well when it comes to Debussy and Ravel…James Baillieu is Broderick’s outstanding pianist, nowhere more so than... — Gramophone Magazine, November 2016 More…

Neary and Frith achieve an ideal effervescence, at no tonal expense, which also lifts Bennett’s gracefully vocal Allegro. Frith’s crystalline touch here, ideally recorded, is a joy, complemented... — BBC Music Magazine, April 2017, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Mia Cooper and Lance Coburn prove eloquent advocates for the three violin sonatas...William Butt has, perhaps, the best of the four, where Esposito achieves a balance between charm and profundity... — Gramophone Magazine, June 2014 More…

Through all of these Johnson and his namesake, accompanist Graham Johnson, are vivid guides. Johnson (the singer [possesses] melting head tones but also a sometimes forceful edge. Each of the... — Gramophone Magazine, December 2016 More…

Tarasova’s bona fides as a Brahms player are quickly established in her traversal of Op. 76. Her beguiling cantabile ios a given ad she foregrounds inner voices in the thickest textures with... — Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2017 More…

This is a sometimes dizzying tour of the English oboe repertoire, hopping in turn from rural lyricism to hard-edged modernity, but there is no disputing the technical facility of James Turnbull... — The Observer, 10th March 2013 More…