Champs Hill Records

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 stars More…

this excellent group...offers a generously wide range of 19th- and 20th-century music, much of it unfamiliar, all of it diverting...it is Astor Piazzolla who is chosen to provide the unpredictable... — Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2011 More…

[The Prophecy] evinces a propulsion and cumulative intensity that speaks very much of youthful uninhibition...At the opposite end of the spectrum are brief pieces for flute, piano quartet, and... — Gramophone Magazine, November 2020 More…

Someone should commission a music theatre piece from Cheryl Frances Hoad: this disc reveals a dramatic instinct straining at the leash....Jennifer Johnston is a superb advocate, the glossy depth... — BBC Music Magazine, January 2015, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Anybody disinclined to take the accordion seriously as a classical instrument should listen to the opening track here...[the Nordheim and Berio] are advertisements for the accordion's expressive... — BBC Music Magazine, December 2011, 4 out of 5 stars More…

[the Piano Quartet No. 1] is certainly winning in as engaging performance as it gets here. The London Bridge Trio bring this unfamiliar work to life as if it were an old friend, with expressive... — BBC Music Magazine, March 2016, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Pailthrope is an eloquent flautist who plays a wooden flute by Rudall Carte. His fine account of the A minor Partita, BWV 1013, reveals its warm and rounded character particularly well...the... — BBC Music Magazine, August 2012, 4 out of 5 stars More…

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. — The Telegraph, 2nd September 2010, 4 out of 5 stars More…