Champs Hill Records

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…

Ruby Hughes's singing is exceptional - light and delicate yet true. — BBC Music Magazine, July 2016 More…

[de Pledge] brings to this CD his trademark transparency of touch. The sound is bright and firm as he beings the first promenade, and 'Gnomus' emerges with expansive breadth...And so it goes,... — BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2012, 4 out of 5 stars 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…

the Ligeti is a delight, beginning with needle-sharp precision and culminating in Mediterranean warmth. Zarins's Prokofiev is nicely idiomatic, and his performance of Petrushka is one of the... — BBC Music Magazine, April 2013, 3 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 Oculi players’ fastidiousness with dynamics and tonal range held me throughout...Singing tonal nuance and dynamic variety distinguish the two 1940s masterpieces, and it’s amazing how many... — BBC Music Magazine, March 2021, 5 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 4 out of 5 stars (Recording) More…

The singers steer a convincing stylistic course, balancing the sometimes contradictory demands of the source material and the arrangement…Middleton’s playing is precisely coloured and characterised — BBC Music Magazine, June 2016, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Gripping performances by rising star Tamsin Waley-Cohen, who plays every note with commitment, from the ultra-cool of Gershwin to the magical enchantment of Ravel. — BBC Music Magazine, October 2013, 4 out of 5 stars More…