Champs Hill Records

[Pailthorpe] plays with an exceptionally sweet and pure tone...As well as Pailthorpe's fine playing, it is good to have the ECO in splendid form under Benjamin Wallfisch, recorded with fine... — Gramophone Magazine, March 2012 More…

There’s a heartfelt quality to Jamal Aliyev’s playing that comes across strongly on this debut disc. — BBC Music Magazine, May 2017, 3 out of 5 stars More…

Violinist Ittai Shapira turned to composing as a way of healing. A colourful storyteller, his concertos draw on Sephardic Jewish history, Indian folk music and gypsy tradition. — BBC Music Magazine, May 2019, 3 out of 5 stars More…

a demanding programme - both technically and musically challenging, and well recorded by a history of virtuosos. It's a risky strategy for a debut disc, but overall it pays off. She is clearly... — BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2012, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Cellist O’Kane is the star of this disc, sensitive and introspective in The Swan, then animated and robust Saint-Saens Sonata No. 1, in which he and McHale have a more even partnership. — BBC Music Magazine, May 2017, 4 out of 5 stars More…

The compulsive fluency of Stanford’s music is part of its charm…Frith’s advocacy is state-of-the-art (does any pianist around draw a lovelier sound from the keyboard, or phrase more naturally?),... — BBC Music Magazine, November 2016, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Shapira's rich tonal variety is amply displayed ina ll three works, everything well recorded. Even though the pace in Barber's slow movement is set by his favourite instrument, the oboe, Shapira... — Gramophone Magazine, March 2013 More…

The total effect can be a tad floaty and saccharine, but there is beautiful playing. — BBC Music Magazine, May 2014, 3 out of 5 stars More…

[Sidorova] plays magnificently here — Gramophone Magazine, September 2013 More…

Brabbins nurtures the orchestra’s proliferating counter-melodies, and the recording renders them all clearly, though without ever making the BBC SO sound like the ‘small orchestra’ Strauss specified — BBC Music Magazine, November 2016, 4 out of 5 stars More…