Champs Hill Records
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Tarasova’s bona fides as a Brahms player are quickly established in her traversal of Op. 76. Her beguiling cantabile ios a given ad she foregrounds inner voices in the thickest textures with... —
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Reynaldo Hahn: Chamber Music & Song, Volume 1
Benjamin Baker, Adam Newman, Tim Lowe, James Baillieu, Bartosz Woroch
Bookended by two chamber works, it is the shorter pieces at the centre of this programme that enchant the most. Sublimely tender performances too. —
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Throughout the programme, Apekishiva is responsive to the unscripted and spontaneous nature of the genre, while maintaining seamless phrasing and flawless tonal control…Apekisheva’s Chopin offers... —
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Mogg is comfortable across the enormous range and demonstrates much of the timbral flexibility these songs need. Coleman’s playing is outstanding…There’s much to admire here, even if Loewe’s... —
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Hats off to this young Danish cellist for finding a new frame for Kodály’s Solo Sonata, even if the pieces do serve to remind us of its unique strength. Jonathan Swensen, a musician of charisma... —
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London Conchord Ensemble play Duruflé, Loeffler & Pierné
William Dazeley (baritone)
London Conchord Ensemble
There is an elegiac tone to Loeffler’s Two Rhapsodies for oboe, viola and piano and tinges of regret and bliss to the voice of Dazeley, echoed by the wistfulness and caprice of the Duruflé. —
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Plum Pudding
Recorded live on 30 Nov 2002, Champs Hill Music Room
Dame Felicity Lott (soprano), Gabriel Woolf (narrator)
Joyful Company of Singers, Peter Broadbent
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Gould's commitment to composers of his generation is impressive...we start with an absorbing, if slightly hard-edged, performance of the Bach Chaconne...but Donna Lee has an insouciant zest,... —
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