Champs Hill Records

[Pailthorpe] plays with an exceptionally sweet and pure tone...As well as Pailthorpe's fine playing, it is good to have the ECO in splendid form under Benjamin Wallfisch, recorded with fine... — Gramophone Magazine, March 2012 More…

It’s a light, pleasant set of recordings, pairing choral and chamber works. — BBC Music Magazine, December 2020, 3 out of 5 stars More…

I’m not sure I’ve ever appreciated how lovely the saxophone can sound until hearing this. Radford shines a light on an early champion of the instrument, Rudy Wiedoeft, in this colourful selection... — BBC Music Magazine, June 2022, 5 out of 5 stars 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…

Bookended by two chamber works, it is the shorter pieces at the centre of this programme that enchant the most. Sublimely tender performances too. — BBC Music Magazine, August 2018, 4 out of 5 stars More…

[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…