Harmonia Mundi

Hasselhorn’s emotional range is formidable, alive to the power of a single carefullycoloured inflection within the arc of a perfectly-shaped line. Spurred on by Middleton, the acuity of the... — BBC Music Magazine, August 2022, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Were it not for his 600-plus songs, Schubert’s works for choir would undoubtedly be more widely appreciated. These wonderful performances by the RIAS Kammerchor and Marcus Creed make an ideal... — BBC Music Magazine, March 2018, 5 out of 5 stars More…

This is a distinctly beautiful voice, with some power but no undue showiness, an often crystalline top, good diction and expressive intelligence. — BBC Music Magazine, January 2009, 4 out of 5 stars More…

The instrumental playing under Bertrand Cuiller is supple and vivid, but the real star of the show here is soprano Rachel Redmond: she sings an Akeyrode drinking song with bright swagger and... — The Guardian, 28th September 2017, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Ross and Clare College Choir make a strong case for Bernstein’s stripped-down version of the Chichester Psalms. Organ, harp and percussion provide the accompaniment, and allied with youthful... — BBC Music Magazine, June 2023, 4 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 5 out of 5 stars (Recording) More…

D’Oustrac is, for many music lovers, THE Carmen of the present day and in the dramatic Élégie en prose she shows why. But the pieces by Devienne, Dalayrac et al don’t really suite her voice…The... — BBC Music Magazine, March 2020, 4 out of 5 stars More…

From the first bars of Rachmaninov’s Second Sonata you are swept up in a maelstrom of emotion. The red light clearly holds no terrors for him as he relishes the full sonority of a richly voiced... — Gramophone Magazine, November 2019 More…