SACD, Purcell (composer)

The art of vocal duetting is exemplified at its best in this recital by two of today’s finest British singers, working with an accompanist of equal merit…each singer has solo items…Yet the most... — BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2017, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Watkins’s cycle shares Britten’s ability to meld text and musical gesture with an acuity seemingly effortless, almost plucked ready-formed out of the air...An exquisite release touched with... — BBC Music Magazine, February 2023, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Ruby Hughes’s soprano has an effortless beauty: pliant, subtly expressive, never forced. She captures the chaste fervour of the sacred works…Brinkmann and Nordberg proffer aptly spontaneous... — BBC Music Magazine, June 2017, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Prepare yourself to embrace the bizarre and bonkers virtuosity of Restoration mad songs and works by Biber and Telemann in these arrangements by Terje Tønnesen and Mihkel Kerem…these are stylish... — BBC Music Magazine, August 2017, 5 out of 5 stars More…

A sweetly scented posy, this...Perfect, too, for all who love Sampson's fragrant, light-filled, warmly communicative soprano. Surprisingly, this is her solo recital debut on disc. The bouquet... — BBC Music Magazine, Awards Issue 2015, 4 out of 5 stars More…

There is indeed little that these players cannot project in terms of multifacted lyricism, colour and dramatic presence, and this is matched by the very best in modern brass programming…all... — Gramophone Magazine, June 2015 More…

If such a sound word can tire the ears relatively quickly, both players alight sensitively on a deft balance and a simple, galant elegance which characterise almost all these works...Tarkovi's... — Gramophone Magazine, September 2014 More…

This vivid act of reclamation has so much to teach, and to enjoy. It shows that Stokowski's arrangements were made not only with love but acuity; that their flair and poetry may survive beyond... — Gramophone Magazine, July 2011 More…