Champs Hill Records

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…

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…

Krzystof Chorzelski and Katya Apekisheva seem more concerned with ensuring that the few dramatic sections in the work are projected with the greatest immediacy. As a result, the sudden explosion... — BBC Music Magazine, June 2012, 5 out of 5 stars 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…

The B flat Trio receives a pleasantly warm performance here, with textures kept clear and resonant...The players deal sympathetically with this most sympathetic music...[In the Trout] the Andante... — International Record Review, October 2010 More…

This lovingly chosen recital...celebrates dance and song...Less robust or outgoing than many others, Tom Poster makes a haunting virtue of inwardness and refinement. His sound is warm and beguiling...His... — Gramophone Magazine, April 2014 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…

Mia Cooper and Lance Coburn prove eloquent advocates for the three violin sonatas...William Butt has, perhaps, the best of the four, where Esposito achieves a balance between charm and profundity... — Gramophone Magazine, June 2014 More…