Browse: Stanford - La Belle Dame sans merci (John Keats) (1877)

These are all still exceptionally beautiful, valuable reminders of an extraordinary artist. — BBC Music Magazine, October 2017, 4 out of 5 stars 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…

they're all tales and Finley is a fine tale-teller. In Loewe, he sounds as though he's singing just for you, the listener, so rapt and intense is his communication. Drake is a fine accomplice,... — BBC Music Magazine, July 2011, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Mehta is a technically excellent singer; with a firm well-supported line; an unusually resonant lower range; and fine expressive diction, well equal to Julius Drake's sturdy accompaniment. And... — BBC Music Magazine, November 2011, 5 out of 5 stars More…

The recital begins with Keats and ends with Shakespeare: that can't be bad. But it also begins with Stanford and ends with Parry; what would the modernists of their time have thought about that?... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 More…

Michaels-Moore records the piano version [of the Stanford], throwing the burden of colour and expression on to the voice with considerable success...with Michael Pollock offering fluent support... — BBC Music Magazine, August 2013, 4 out of 5 stars More…