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This is not quite a complete lexicon (there are no ‘mad songs’ for example) but it offers a worthy platform for the acclaimed musical and dramatic skills of Randall Scotting and Stephen Stubbs. — BBC Music Magazine, March 2023, 4 out of 5 stars More…

An album of hope for recovery. Andrew Nethsingha is explicit in his eloquent booklet essay that this latest well-crafted and beautifully sung disc from the Choir of St John’s College, Cambridge... — BBC Music Magazine, February 2022, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Across all three works, the Tippett Quartet lucidly communicates Herrmann's themes of mystery and paranoia. The drama created owes much to its intimate set-up - it's hard to imagine any orchestra... — Classic FM Magazine, May 2011, 4 out of 5 stars More…

A whistle-stop tour of violin virtuoso showpieces, many composed by the great masters of the instrument. Siem faces up to the challenges set by Kreisler and co with gusto. — BBC Music Magazine, March 2021, 5 out of 5 stars More…

You can listen stereo, but Towards Silence really comes into its own on the multichannel SACD layer, where the work's quadraphonic deployment of four string quartets (plus Tibetan temple bowl)... — BBC Music Magazine, February 2011, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Williams is in stellar form throughout (his lustrous tone beautifully captured by the microphones), and he enjoys outstandingly sympathetic support from Graham J. Lloyd (whose pianism is of... — Gramophone Magazine, September 2015 More…

There have been many recordings of Hildegard’s works but here Grace Davidson, singing alone, unfolds a tapestry of sounds filled with exceptional purity, mellifluous continuity and a focused... — BBC Music Magazine, December 2022, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Written in 1952 when Vaughan Williams turned 80, the Violin Sonata was his last completed piece of chamber music . Its opening ‘Fantasia’ movement is tricky to pin down temperamentally, but... — BBC Music Magazine, May 2023, 4 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 5 out of 5 stars (Recording) More…

[an] authoritative performance, with uniformly excellent soloists and the sensitive organ playing of Jonathan Vaughn. — Choir & Organ, March/April 2015 More…