27 March 2017
Classics Today, David Hurwitz
Medtner & Rachmaninov: Piano Concertos‘Hamelin [is] an ideal advocate. He is, of course, an exceptional keyboard virtuoso, but one of a very special type. The harder the music is to play, the easier he makes it sound … Hamelin isn’t just a technical wizard—he’s a smart one’ (Classics Today)
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The Observer, Stephen Pritchard
Bruch: String Quintets & Octet‘The always rewarding Nash Ensemble add warmth and grace to the sprightly String Quintet in E flat major and bring verve and attack to its edgier A minor companion, but it is in the magnificent String Octet that the players finally allow the sun to truly shine. Recommended’ (The Observer)
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26 March 2017
The Observer, Fiona Maddocks
Music for the 100 Years' War‘We are lucky to have The Binchois Consort—here, two altos, four tenors—to bring this haunting, often jubilant early English repertoire to full-blooded life’ (The Observer)
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25 March 2017
Klassik.com, Germany, Hartmut Hein
Taneyev & Rimsky-Korsakov: Piano Trios„Vornehme Zurückhaltung kann man dem britischen Trio mit Benjamin Nabarro, der Cellistin Gemma Rosefield und einem exzellenten Tim Horton am Klavier hier nicht vorwerfen: Sie suchen die Qualitäten zweier russischer Trios im Dringlich-Expressiven“ (Klassik.com, Germany)
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PERFORMANCE
RECORDING22 March 2017
Planet Hugill, Robert Hugill
Queen Mary's Big Belly'A real sense of intimacy and superb clarity; all concerned sing with a beautiful elegance of line, and expressive beauty' (Planet Hugill)
