Champs Hill Records

Krzystof Chorzelski and Katya Apekisheva seem more concerned with ensuring that the few dramatic sections in the work are projected with the greatest immediacy. As a result, the sudden explosion... — BBC Music Magazine, June 2012, 5 out of 5 stars More…

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…

Anybody disinclined to take the accordion seriously as a classical instrument should listen to the opening track here...[the Nordheim and Berio] are advertisements for the accordion's expressive... — BBC Music Magazine, December 2011, 4 out of 5 stars More…

The B flat Trio receives a pleasantly warm performance here, with textures kept clear and resonant...The players deal sympathetically with this most sympathetic music...[In the Trout] the Andante... — International Record Review, October 2010 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…

Energetic playing here from the Benyounes; the Bartók and Beethoven blister, while the Debussy is an animated delight in their hands. — BBC Music Magazine, May 2019, 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…