Champs Hill Records

it's a work of tremendous virtuosity and drastic extremes of dynamic and register that expands to absorb a wealth of styles...Superb performance and stunning sound: a real discovery. — BBC Music Magazine, October 2011, 5 out of 5 starsMore…

Here's an irresistable recital of questing, late-Romantic songs...Katherine Broderick has just the voice and temperament to express these subtle and exciting shifts between innocence and experience,... — BBC Music Magazine, March 2013, 5 out of 5 starsMore…

The playing is undeniably brilliant, yet I missed a sense of searching. And something less showy than Rachmaninov’s arrangement of Kreisler’s Liebesfreud for the encore might have been more... — Sunday Times, 19th July 2015More…

There is much to admire here: total technical control, sensitivity to linear balance, a wide range of dynamics and warm tone. If the Nocturnes seem to be more Lara Melda’s natural territory,... — BBC Music Magazine, February 2021, 4 out of 5 starsMore…

A tricksy title, but this is an interesting, diverse programme…[Humphreys] shapes the music with skill, and sometimes with humour: I especially enjoyed the almost throaway ending to the Gavotte... — BBC Music Magazine, October 2015More…

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 starsMore…

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 starsMore…

Through all of these Johnson and his namesake, accompanist Graham Johnson, are vivid guides. Johnson (the singer [possesses] melting head tones but also a sometimes forceful edge. Each of the... — Gramophone Magazine, December 2016More…