Chandos

It’s a special treat to have two of the younger generation’s most interesting artists championing the Walker as its existing discography is so very limited. — Gramophone Magazine, March 2024 More…

The result – lovingly presented and played with consummate finesse – is like a selection box of handmade musical confectionery. What strikes you first is the seriousness and craft with which... — Gramophone Magazine, May 2023 More…

A varied collection that offers more than just vocal bonbons…Connolly and Middleton execute the complex phrasing [of A Charm of Lullabies] with a sense of ensemble for which they are revered. — BBC Music Magazine, August 2018, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Toby Spence is on mellifluous form here, and Christopher Purves is no less subtle in the nocturnal cycle Les espaces du sommeil...An attractively varied, highly accomplished release. — BBC Music Magazine, November 2011, 4 out of 5 stars More…

For me, the lighter popular songs that conclude the disc, with Alder floating exquisitely soft high notes, take the prize. — BBC Music Magazine, June 2021, 3 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 4 out of 5 stars (Recording) More…

Her youthful yet attractively rich-toned voice and beguiling musicianship, with an appropriate touch of skittishness at the start of the Weinberg set, works extremely well through most of these... — BBC Music Magazine, April 2022, 4 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 5 out of 5 stars (Recording) More…

They create a sense of isolation within the sadness of King David; they capture Ireland's responses to the poetry of Hardy, Sidney and Symons with total commitment; and they respond with sentience... — BBC Music Magazine, December 2011, 4 out of 5 stars More…

The starting point for this delicious and distinctive Bohemian programme was Janácek’s Pohádka...Laura van der Heijden and Jâms Coleman unleash its power in this big-boned reading, with its... — BBC Music Magazine, March 2022, 4 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 5 out of 5 stars (Recording) More…

Throughout the album, Dankworth never loses sight of the song’s message...An excellent album all round, and arguably the singer’s best since ‘It Happens Quietly’. — Gramophone Magazine, March 2022 More…