Wigmore Hall Live

This beautifully programmed recital will make you want to rush out and buy as many volumes of British songs as you can…the real showstoppers are the lovingly rendered wartime lollipops, steeped... — BBC Music Magazine, May 2018, 4 out of 5 stars More…

This review could be very brief: buy these two discs! [The Elias Quartet] are simply astounding, in the freshness, intensity, assurance and seeming spontaneity of their playing…[Bitlloch] cultivates... — BBC Music Magazine, April 2018, 5 out of 5 stars More…

These musicians are different. Not radically different but enough to notice that their style of playing, though highly disciplined, isn't cuttingly concentrated. Then there is Haydn the musical... — Gramophone Magazine, February 2010 More…

This is an extraordinarily subtle performance of Schubert's first great cycle. Wonderfully recorded, with an ideal balance between soloist and pianist, it leaves you wondering, at times, who... — BBC Music Magazine, June 2011, 5 out of 5 stars More…

This recital had no name; but it is pungent with Intimations of Mortality. Allen's noble baritone now incarnates this awareness superbly, whether in the numb grief of Hugo Wolf's 'Harper' songs... — BBC Music Magazine, September 2005, 4 out of 5 stars More…

The opening Schubert group demonstrates the baritone's natural and unaffected delivery - an ability to hold words and notes together in one single gesture - and his finely tuned vocalism, founded... — BBC Music Magazine, December 2009 More…

…Mozart's final Quartet is not exactly the easiest of openers. Yet the Škampa Quartet delivers a beautifully natural and effortless account, revelling in the subtleties of contrapuntal interplay... — BBC Music Magazine, January 2008, 5 out of 5 stars More…