Champs Hill Records
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impressive, both in the quality of the playing and the variety of the music…in Ysaye's Third Sonata she yields nothing to the finest recordings in her accuracy and passion, the recording capturing... —
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BBC Music Magazine, January 2017, Instrumental Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2017, Editor's Choice
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2018, Winner - Instrumental
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Her playing is classy, navigating a fine path between virtuosity, poetry, structural awareness and idiomatic style. There's a velvety lyricism to her Liszt and she's fearsome in the Schubert. —
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BBC Music Magazine, Instrumental Choice
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BBC Music Magazine, December 2010, Instrumental Choice
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2011, Newcomer of the Year
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Special offer. 1948 - Russian Works for Cello & Piano
Laura van der Heijden (cello), Petr Limonov (piano)
As these heartfelt performances demonstrate, these are not cowed and dutifully conservative works…Van der Heijden plays with attractively songful tone throughout, rich yet grainy in her instrument’s... —
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BBC Music Magazine, March 2018, Recording of the Month
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2019, Winner - Newcomer of the Year
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Special offer. Mendelssohn: Complete Works for String Quartet
Sophie Bevan (soprano) & Julian Milford (piano)
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... —
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BBC Music Magazine, September 2014, Chamber Choice
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Often performances, understandably, concentrate on the outgoing qualities of [the Quintet and the ‘American’], but the Škampa Quartet is alive to their underlying soulfulness. Nor do they neglect... —
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2017, Editor's Choice
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The Times Records of the Year, 2017
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The reason you should care about this album isn’t because it’s got a great back story but because this is wonderful playing, supremely polished in technical terms and exuding maturity...In short,... —
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2020
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Dariescu communicates [the Boulanger’s] brooding atmosphere, imaginative register deployment and shattering climactic descending passages in octaves…Fauré’s Op. 103 Preludes further demonstrate... —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Solo Music
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Williams’s voice, with its smooth production and clear, unforced high notes, is well suited to the French mélodie, while his pronunciation is excellent. The Poulenc and Honegger songs are particularly... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, January 2022
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[The Gould Trio's] players follow the composer's directions to the letter, bringing a natural flow to the various difficult changes in tempo in the first movement and mapping its emotional narrative... —
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BBC Music Magazine, February 2011, Chamber Choice
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Gavrić's accounts of...perennial favourites...are certainly appealing. More important is her commitment to music that remains unaccountably neglected...But perhaps the most revelatory music... —
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2014, Editor's Choice
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