Champs Hill Records

this excellent group...offers a generously wide range of 19th- and 20th-century music, much of it unfamiliar, all of it diverting...it is Astor Piazzolla who is chosen to provide the unpredictable... — Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2011 More…

Production and recording values are invariably high from this source and the present issue continues this trend. I note that a previous Frances-Hoad chamber music issue The Glory Tree on Champs... — MusicWeb International, August 2017 More…

Whately's choice is eclectic…[and] she sings them with attractive brightness and fervour. Her tone is not yet as distinctive as Janet Baker or Sarah Connolly, say, but there's a plangent shading... — BBC Music Magazine, June 2015, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Robert Plane is always inquiring as to repertoire and his new disc surveys almost six decades of Hungarian music…Plane’s musicianship is abetted throughout by that of his colleagues…Collecting... — Gramophone Magazine, October 2017 More…

Anybody disinclined to take the accordion seriously as a classical instrument should listen to the opening track here...[the Nordheim and Berio] are advertisements for the accordion's expressive... — BBC Music Magazine, December 2011, 4 out of 5 stars More…

[Broderick’s] steely soprano and declamatory way with words serve her wonderfully well when it comes to Debussy and Ravel…James Baillieu is Broderick’s outstanding pianist, nowhere more so than... — Gramophone Magazine, November 2016 More…

Neary and Frith achieve an ideal effervescence, at no tonal expense, which also lifts Bennett’s gracefully vocal Allegro. Frith’s crystalline touch here, ideally recorded, is a joy, complemented... — BBC Music Magazine, April 2017, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Energetic playing here from the Benyounes; the Bartók and Beethoven blister, while the Debussy is an animated delight in their hands. — BBC Music Magazine, May 2019, 4 out of 5 stars More…