Champs Hill Records

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…

The Oculi players’ fastidiousness with dynamics and tonal range held me throughout...Singing tonal nuance and dynamic variety distinguish the two 1940s masterpieces, and it’s amazing how many... — BBC Music Magazine, March 2021, 5 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 4 out of 5 stars (Recording) More…

The Concert ’s vast emotional sweep is conveyed with a natural awareness of the ebb and flow of its intense passions...The Sonata is beautifully played with plenty of character, with delectably... — BBC Music Magazine, May 2021, 4 out of 5 stars More…

The album title is taken from the opening cycle on World War One poems by Ian McMillan, in which the composer follows a well-trodden English path, but with her own highly persuasive contemporary... — BBC Music Magazine, February 2019, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Shapira should strengthen his reputation as a composer with this CD, a vibrant mixture of post-modern eclecticism with folk-song and neo-Romanticism. — BBC Music Magazine, July 2012, 5 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…

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…

the Ligeti is a delight, beginning with needle-sharp precision and culminating in Mediterranean warmth. Zarins's Prokofiev is nicely idiomatic, and his performance of Petrushka is one of the... — BBC Music Magazine, April 2013, 3 out of 5 stars More…