Champs Hill Records

Someone should commission a music theatre piece from Cheryl Frances Hoad: this disc reveals a dramatic instinct straining at the leash....Jennifer Johnston is a superb advocate, the glossy depth... — BBC Music Magazine, January 2015, 4 out of 5 stars More…

[the Piano Quartet No. 1] is certainly winning in as engaging performance as it gets here. The London Bridge Trio bring this unfamiliar work to life as if it were an old friend, with expressive... — BBC Music Magazine, March 2016, 5 out of 5 stars More…

These prove to be captivating discoveries, full of fresh and memorable thematic invention, performed here by the Lendvai String Trio with great energy and musical commitment. Each work, composed... — BBC Music Magazine, May 2014, 4 out of 5 stars More…

These are mostly excellent performances matching sweet string tone with a muscular approach to musical argument. The first movement of the B flat trio coudl have been more expansive, but the... — BBC Music Magazine, October 2012, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Appl has a baritone voice with its own character and a natural appreciation of the essentials of singing Lieder…he floats through Mendelssohn’s beautifully rippling ‘Schwanenlied’ with mellow... — Gramophone Magazine, May 2016 More…

Shapira should strengthen his reputation as a composer with this CD, a vibrant mixture of post-modern eclecticism with folk-song and neo-Romanticism. — BBC Music Magazine, July 2012, 5 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…