Chandos

A brilliant tonal voice unleashed and heard through dustless unsmeared glass [RB]

Strikingly vivid and thrilling accounts of some of Tchaikovsky’s most atmospheric narrative tone poems [RMo]

A great and extremely effective recording drenched in splendour [RB]

Invigorating accounts [LW]

A unique chance to get to know some most enjoyable music by this little-known composer, teacher and virtuoso [GH]

(Déjà Review) A simply superb recording [CC]

Beauty and power triumph over darkness in Storgårds’ latest Shostakovich disc [NC]

John Wilson has led me to enjoy this symphony as much as I have for decades [DMD]

A diverse and interesting programme beautifully played and recorded [NB]

A worthy tribute – scintillating music played with wit, verve, insight and exceptional skill [NB]

(Déjà Review) If you have any interest in the music of Vaughan Williams this is an almost mandatory purchase [SF][PC]

Well-crafted and thoroughly enjoyable music; Viðar is a definite discovery [DJB]

The varied moods are perfectly realised by Stefan Parkman and his choir [JP]

A coterie of British composers and the flute [JW]

(Déjà Review) Outstanding throughout [ST]

(Déjà Review) This collection does full justice to the finest lyric baritone Britain has produced since the Second World War [RJF]

The luscious second symphony, recorded with rather too little presence for the strings [EJW]

Well played and well engineered but lacking character [NB]

A highly diverting selection of lighter pieces to celebrate the Brodsky Quartet’s fifty-year anniversary [RMo]

Rare works in very fine performances, and a superb warm recording [HC]

The first opportunity to find on one disc Rubbra’s complete songs from a period of over fifty years [GH]

Beautiful playing compromised by excessive restraint in the final two movements [RMo]

An absolutely outstanding disc containing some of the best of English string music [EJW]

A very rewarding album, including songs by two unjustly neglected composers [JQ]