30 September 2015
Sinfini Music, Caroline Gill
Arias for Benucci
Studio Master: CDA68078  Studio Master FLAC & ALAC downloads available

‘Energetic playing from a starry band supports sensitive singing from bass Matthew Rose, bringing a historical singer to vivid, contemporary life’ (Sinfini Music)» More

30 September 2015
The Amati Magazine, Peter Quantrill
Bach, Handel & Scarlatti (D): Gamba Sonatas
Studio Master: CDA68045  Studio Master FLAC & ALAC downloads available

‘Steven Isserlis is more agile and adaptable than other cellists who have mixed and matched with a harpsichord in these sonatas’ (The Amati Magazine)» More

30 September 2015

Ornstein: Piano Quintet & String Quartet No 2
Studio Master: CDA68084  Studio Master FLAC & ALAC downloads available

‘"So gorgeous I want to inject it into my veins." Those were the words I blurted out to a fellow critic about the slow movement of Leo Ornstein’s stunning Piano Quintet after I first heard it performed by this first-rate group of musicians two years ago at Carnegie Hall. Here, finally, is a recording of this epically proportioned forgotten treasure’ (The New York Times)» More
30 September 2015

Schubert: Impromptus, Piano pieces & Variations
Studio Master: CDA68107  Studio Master FLAC & ALAC downloads available

‘Played with sympathy and superb musicianship by Osborne … the recording is a model of warmth and lucidity. If you would like a one word summing up: outstanding!’ (Classical Source)» More
28 September 2015

Ornstein: Piano Quintet & String Quartet No 2
Studio Master: CDA68084  Studio Master FLAC & ALAC downloads available

‘Both these scores call for considerable virtuosity, energy and generosity, fully met here in performances that are truly inside the music and which share it vividly and with dedication. The sound-quality is outstanding in its immediacy and clarity, and the balance in the Piano Quintet is spot-on. In short, this is a superb release of impressive music in top-class accounts’ (Classical Source)» More
28 September 2015

Ornstein: Piano Quintet & String Quartet No 2
Studio Master: CDA68084  Studio Master FLAC & ALAC downloads available

‘The piano part is excruciatingly difficult, yet Hamelin sails through it with aplomb. The Pacifica Quartet are worthy partners and the entire CD is such an overwhelming experience that I urge you to get it so you can brave your way into the originality of this composer's mind’ (Pianist)» More

25 September 2015
Classica, France, Jacques Bonnaure
Ysaÿe: Sonatas for solo violin
Studio Master: CDA67993  Studio Master FLAC & ALAC downloads available

«[Alina Ibragimova] déploie une imagination sonore continue au service de textes dépeignant des climats constamment varies. Son jeu protéiforme se fait tour à tour délicatement impressionniste, vigoureux parfois jusqu'a la brutalité contrôlée, lyrique, grinçant, humoristique, souvent diaboliquement virtuose mais jamais creux, rehausse d'un formidable travail de la sonorité. S'y ajoute une impression d'élan naturel comme si elle improvisait la musique avec une passion communicative» (Classica, France)» More
23 September 2015

Janáček & Smetana: String Quartets
Studio Master: CDA67997  Studio Master FLAC & ALAC downloads available

‘It's hard not to be impressed, emotionally as well as intellectually, especially when it's all so clearly and intimately recorded’ (BBC Music Magazine)» More
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23 September 2015
Audiophile Audition, USA, Peter Joelson
Parry: I was glad & other choral works
Studio Master: CDA68089  Studio Master FLAC & ALAC downloads available

‘This seems to me a highly rewarding release of the highest quality, deserving investigation by all interested in cathedral music. It’s a testament to the long experience and fine music-making James O’Donnell has brought to London audiences, from Westminster Abbey, Westminster Cathedral and the Proms, and from his recitals around the UK and the rest of the world. It has certainly given me enormous pleasure over the past three weeks’ (Audiophile Audition, USA)» More

23 September 2015

Schubert: Impromptus, Piano pieces & Variations
Studio Master: CDA68107  Studio Master FLAC & ALAC downloads available

‘Steven Osborne is perhaps the outstanding British pianist of his generation, certainly one of the most versatile and adventurous … these performances rank with the finest’ (BBC Music Magazine)» More
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22 September 2015
Süddeutsche Zeitung, Germany
Fitzenhagen: Cello Concertos
Studio Master: CDA68063  Studio Master FLAC & ALAC downloads available

„Alban Gerhardt, einer der besten Cellisten unserer Zeit, spielt diese Version so elegant wie geistreich. Dass Fitzenhagen ein versierter Komponist war, zeigen zwei Cellokonzerte und Konzerstücke, die Alban Gerhardt wunderbar leichtfürßig und charmant in Szene setzt: Romantisch virtuose Musik“ (Süddeutsche Zeitung, Germany)» More
21 September 2015
Winnipeg Free Press, Canada, Holly Harris
Beethoven: Piano Sonatas Opp 2/2, 10/1, 78 & 110
Studio Master: CDA68086  Studio Master FLAC & ALAC downloads available

‘This latest recording provides a thoughtful addition to the ever-growing body of Beethoven solo piano recordings courtesy of one of the world's greatest living pianists today’ (Winnipeg Free Press, Canada)» More

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