Browse: Champs Hill Records (label)

It’s a light, pleasant set of recordings, pairing choral and chamber works. — BBC Music Magazine, December 2020, 3 out of 5 stars More…

a format that allows these quartets, showing Mendelssohn at his best, to reveal their multifarious qualities: energy, passion, tenderness, wit and civilised authority...Overall, I can only applaud... — BBC Music Magazine, September 2014, 5 out of 5 stars More…

I’m not sure I’ve ever appreciated how lovely the saxophone can sound until hearing this. Radford shines a light on an early champion of the instrument, Rudy Wiedoeft, in this colourful selection... — BBC Music Magazine, June 2022, 5 out of 5 stars More…

The whimsical performance of Charles Ives’s ‘The Children’s Hour’ which opens the recital sets high standards of interpretation, John’s mellifluous singing offset by Vann’s tenderly undulating... — BBC Music Magazine, July 2021, 4 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 5 out of 5 stars (Recording) More…

there’s a lot more to this recital than elegiac gloom. A fine showcase of double bass virtuosity, in fact. — BBC Music Magazine, August 2021, 4 out of 5 stars 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…

these are careful and insightful performances of pieces whose identities are predicated upon profoundly different principles...In fact, all three sonatas are conjoined by [the] need to combine... — Gramophone Magazine, December 2014 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…