Harmonia Mundi

Fink’s full-bodied, expressive mezzo is rather at odds with the clean, light-textured instrumental sound, but these performances nonetheless convey the music’s pathos and yearning. — BBC Music Magazine, March 2017, 4 out of 5 starsMore…

[A] well executed disc. — BBC Music Magazine, October 2016, 4 out of 5 starsMore…

The first track, the Overture to Of Thee I Sing, immediately sets the tone — not the overture as we usually hear it, but the 1934 radio version, trimmed in length and with lean orchestration.... — Financial Times, 26th August 2016More…

The pianist, Vincent Coq, is both brilliant and sensitive, taking great trouble over balance with the strings while dazzling the ear with his lightly scintillating virtuosity in the more sparkling... — Gramophone Magazine, February 2014More…

Throughout, Mr. Villegas’s virtuosic playing is characterized by its vividly shaded colors and his irresistible exuberance, contrasted with the intimacy he conveys in the more introverted sections. — New York Times, 25th November 2015More…

Crowe here offers an intense and dramatic reading of the first Leçon … Elizabeth Watts takes centre stage in the second setting – her voice plummy and voluptuous … The two join in an impassioned... — BBC Music Magazine, December 2016, 4 out of 5 starsMore…