SACD, Linn (label)

Harp recitals are almost bound to be appealing, such is the instrument’s seductiveness, but this one has substance, too. — Sunday Times, 20th September 2015 More…

Bryan certainly has complete mastery of the [Rouse's] technical and expressive demands, as she does in Ibert's Concerto of 1933...Her playing of Debussy's Syrinx, the ne plus ultra of the solo... — Gramophone Magazine, August 2013 More…

Languorous and brilliant by turns, this star clarinettist's recital is a delight.… — Gramophone Magazine More…

Cargill's beautifully integrated, smoky mezzo reveals the full stature of [Alma's] songs, just as Simon Lepper relishes their fearless piano writing...The Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen welcome... — BBC Music Magazine, September 2014, 3 out of 5 stars More…

Apart from his nimble dexterity, Freeman-Attwood's playing is just as striking for the beauty of his lyrical phrasing and his richness of colour, so well demonstrated by Saint-Saëns's "Romanza",... — Gramophone Magazine, June 2007 More…

Saeijs's is a memorable interpretation. She smoothly negotiates the works' fiendish challenges without once compromising her lustrous tone. At the same time she is faithful to the spirit of... — Gramophone Magazine, March 2016 More…

Gilchrist is as agile as his pianist and evidently attuned to the importance of her role...the mystic union of ground-bass piano with confident vocal line in the concluding 'Death, be not proud'... — BBC Music Magazine, November 2012, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Gareth Brynmor John tunes in to Schoenberg's pungent and resinous arrangement, sweet with avian flute and violin, bittersweet in the dark, mesmeric breathing of the harmonium…[Berceuse elegaique]... — BBC Music Magazine, September 2015 More…