Champs Hill Records

although Janacek, Ravel and Prokofiev write in such different styles, Gavric draws some intriguing parallels between them, especially their preoccupation with piano timbre and texture....Particularly... — BBC Music Magazine, December 2011, 5 out of 5 starsMore…

Neary and Frith achieve an ideal effervescence, at no tonal expense, which also lifts Bennett’s gracefully vocal Allegro. Frith’s crystalline touch here, ideally recorded, is a joy, complemented... — BBC Music Magazine, April 2017, 4 out of 5 starsMore…

Tsybuleva delivers [CPE Bach’s Fantasie] brilliantly, with its opening exquisitely ruminative, and its frantically busy figurations alternating with a sense of wonderment, as though we are exploring... — BBC Music Magazine, September 2017, 4 out of 5 starsMore…

[The masterpieces are] impeccably sung, with great warmth of tone, by Jennifer Johnston. Sophie Bevan, elegant but dropping consonants on occasion, has the lion's share of the soprano songs,... — The Guardian, 21st November 2013, 4 out of 5 starsMore…

Appl has a baritone voice with its own character and a natural appreciation of the essentials of singing Lieder…he floats through Mendelssohn’s beautifully rippling ‘Schwanenlied’ with mellow... — Gramophone Magazine, May 2016More…

There are more viscerally exciting and daringly imaginative versions available, certainly, but the Gould are unfailingly musical, and whatever their performances may lack in dazzle and pyrotechnics... — Gramophone Magazine, January 2018More…

a demanding programme - both technically and musically challenging, and well recorded by a history of virtuosos. It's a risky strategy for a debut disc, but overall it pays off. She is clearly... — BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2012, 4 out of 5 starsMore…

Shapira's rich tonal variety is amply displayed ina ll three works, everything well recorded. Even though the pace in Barber's slow movement is set by his favourite instrument, the oboe, Shapira... — Gramophone Magazine, March 2013More…