Champs Hill Records

As these heartfelt performances demonstrate, these are not cowed and dutifully conservative works…Van der Heijden plays with attractively songful tone throughout, rich yet grainy in her instrument’s... — BBC Music Magazine, March 2018 More…

Often performances, understandably, concentrate on the outgoing qualities of [the Quintet and the ‘American’], but the Škampa Quartet is alive to their underlying soulfulness. Nor do they neglect... — BBC Music Magazine, November 2017, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Williams’s voice, with its smooth production and clear, unforced high notes, is well suited to the French mélodie, while his pronunciation is excellent. The Poulenc and Honegger songs are particularly... — BBC Music Magazine, March 2022, 3 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 4 out of 5 stars (Recording) More…

a format that allows these quartets, showing Mendelssohn at his best, to reveal their multifarious qualities: energy, passion, tenderness, wit and civilised authority...Overall, I can only applaud... — BBC Music Magazine, September 2014, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Allen, who turned 74 in September, remains an irresistibly attractive, superb communicator…[He] is deftly accompanied by Stephen Higgins, who savours the music’s sweetness without over-egging... — BBC Music Magazine, November 2018, 4 out of 5 stars More…

For all her linguistic adeptness, Spanish-born British soprano Lowe is a tone-based singer who knows how to use vocal colour as an imaginative vehicle of expression. — Gramophone Magazine, June 2023 More…

[The Gould Trio's] players follow the composer's directions to the letter, bringing a natural flow to the various difficult changes in tempo in the first movement and mapping its emotional narrative... — BBC Music Magazine, February 2011, 5 out of 5 stars More…