Champs Hill Records

Whately's choice is eclectic…[and] she sings them with attractive brightness and fervour. Her tone is not yet as distinctive as Janet Baker or Sarah Connolly, say, but there's a plangent shading... — BBC Music Magazine, June 2015, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Interpreters might be tempted to decorate the music with ‘expressive’ deformations, but happily not here, where rhythms are taut (note the smart double-dotting in the second movement of the... — BBC Music Magazine, July 2018, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Not since Gordon Fergus-Thompson’s outstanding Scriabin series for ASV has the other-worldly, deeply sensual aspects of this extraordinary music been brought so alluringly to life — BBC Music Magazine, September 2016, 4 out of 5 stars More…

We can only hope that following this outstanding release Dove will not avoid future opportunities to write mezzo-soprano song-cycles. — Gramophone Magazine, August 2017 More…

[Sidorova] plays magnificently here — Gramophone Magazine, September 2013 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…

There is some stellar playing on this disc. Daniel Rowland has a powerful, glamorous tone, gleaming at the top and throaty and rugged down at the bottom, and Natacha Kudritskaya matches him... — Gramophone Magazine, February 2017 More…