Champs Hill Records

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…

Someone should commission a music theatre piece from Cheryl Frances Hoad: this disc reveals a dramatic instinct straining at the leash....Jennifer Johnston is a superb advocate, the glossy depth... — BBC Music Magazine, January 2015, 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…

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…