Champs Hill Records
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Ruby Hughes's singing is exceptional - light and delicate yet true. —
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BBC Music Magazine, July 2016, Choral & Song Choice
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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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Saluste-Bridoux’s bracingly insightful playing on her debut disc encompasses a dazzling stylistic range…she creates the uncanny impression of there being more than one player at work, colouring... —
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BBC Music Magazine, August 2022, Instrumental Choice
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The Glory Tree
Chamber Works by Cheryl Frances-Hoad
Nicholas Daniel (oboe, cor anglais), Nadia Wijzenbeek (violin), Ylvali Zilliacus (viola), Marie Macleod (cello), Alasdair Beatson (piano), Natalia Lomeiko (violin), Leonid Gorokhov (solo cello), Catriona Scott (clarinet), Natalie Raybould (soprano)
Ensemble na Mara, Lenvai String Trio, Instrumentalists...
Frances-Hoad's allegiances are to mainstream modernism, rather than the various popular post-modernist 'isms'. Her compositions may tend towards the sternly ascetic, but they are full of feeling... —
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BBC Music Magazine, October 2011, Chamber Choice
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Lott was still at her peak when these recordings were made in 2002, and has a background of great affinity with the Strauss muse...Her voice and phrasing are still at their glorious finest,... —
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2012, Re-issue of the Month
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Allen, who turned 74 in September, remains an irresistibly attractive, superb communicator…[He] is deftly accompanied by Stephen Higgins, who savours the music’s sweetness without over-egging... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, August 2018
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Mahler: Das Lied von der Erde
Autograph Piano Version
Claudia Huckle (contralto), Nicky Spence (tenor), Justin Brown (piano)
Here, perfect technique, deep expression and unique vocal personalities combine in the singing of Scottish tenor Nicky Spence and Anglo-German contralto Claudia Huckle...We have to hear both... —
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Here’s a debut album full of integrity and care. Lumas Winds is a group of five recent UK conservatoire graduates (lively biographies are available on their website), whose sparky playing lights... —
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For all her linguistic adeptness, Spanish-born British soprano Lowe is a tone-based singer who knows how to use vocal colour as an imaginative vehicle of expression. —
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2024, Shortlisted - Newcomer
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