Champs Hill Records

The compulsive fluency of Stanford’s music is part of its charm…Frith’s advocacy is state-of-the-art (does any pianist around draw a lovelier sound from the keyboard, or phrase more naturally?),... — BBC Music Magazine, November 2016, 4 out of 5 stars More…

The virtuoso performance given Sofia Gubaidulina’s early Chaconne (1962) achieves a terrifying intensity…Gulyak also makes a strong case for the rarely heard Sarabande and Chaconne from Handel’s... — Gramophone Magazine, January 2018 More…

These are mostly excellent performances matching sweet string tone with a muscular approach to musical argument. The first movement of the B flat trio coudl have been more expansive, but the... — BBC Music Magazine, October 2012, 4 out of 5 stars More…

There is some stellar playing on this disc. Daniel Rowland has a powerful, glamorous tone, gleaming at the top and throaty and rugged down at the bottom, and Natacha Kudritskaya matches him... — Gramophone Magazine, February 2017 More…

Violinist Ittai Shapira turned to composing as a way of healing. A colourful storyteller, his concertos draw on Sephardic Jewish history, Indian folk music and gypsy tradition. — BBC Music Magazine, May 2019, 3 out of 5 stars More…