Stone Records

The songs are performed throughout in an excellent style … always in fine vocal form … When a greatly gifted singer lends their artistry to such vocally-rewarding music as this, the result is... — Musical Opinion, Winter 2017 More…

..this is not a recital restricted to one vocal hue. Each song is looked at and receives relevant response from both singer and pianist. ….he (Mark Stone) introduces so much by way of nuance... — International Record Review, March 2009 More…

here is a situation where the quality of the music really does make its obscurity hard to understand...the composer's searching imagination, technical precision and sure self-knowledge all denote... — BBC Music Magazine, February 2013, 4 out of 5 stars More…

This odd grouping of classics from Vienna's First and Second Schools is so well played that one happily accepts its rather strained rationale; Shilyaev is a natural Beethovenian, but his Berg... — BBC Music Magazine, January 2015, 4 out of 5 stars More…

The variety of portraits is matched by the palette of voices chosen by deviser and accompanist Sholto Kynoch. The baritone, David Stout, is the very incarnation of the stalwart...Best of all,... — BBC Music Magazine, March 2015, 3 out of 5 stars More…

Stone's high, slightly grainy baritone and incisive diction deliver Quilter's often long, soaring lines with compelling fervour, and Barlow's fluent accompaniment is the opposite of the dreaded... — BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2014, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Recorded as long ago as 2007 — production delays prompted Stone to set up his own label — the voice heard in this selection of songs and arrangements is youthful, healthy and handsome, utterly... — Sunday Times, 7th June 2020 More…