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Imaginative, sensitive programming has been a constant feature of Ruby Hughes’s collaborations; and this latest with the perennially adventurous Manchester Collective is no exception...A disc... — BBC Music Magazine, March 2024, 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…

These performances seem to glow with an inner light. I don’t see how they could be improved upon. — Fanfare, March/April 2020 More…

Halász avoids cliché, the more familiar repertoire tempered by the lesser known, and contrasts of style and substance. Halász’s playing is deeply expressive, finding a huge variety of tones.... — BBC Music Magazine, August 2021, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Not surprisingly, this is unrelentingly austere stuff. If, however, choral gloom is your bag, it is also an imaginatively programmed recital, immaculately sung and recorded in superb sound. — BBC Music Magazine, June 2021, 5 out of 5 stars More…

there’s a sense of eavesdropping on a spontaneous yet eloquently-argued soliloquy. Colouring is subtle, conversational banter deftly managed, and Lindberg’s tempos always feel spot on, allowing... — BBC Music Magazine, February 2017, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Whether or not these vocal works were meant to be sung by male singers is debateable, but Helen Charlston’s rich, deep timbre make such distinctions irrelevant. Supple, controlled and vibrato... — BBC Music Magazine, November 2023, 4 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 3 out of 5 stars (Recording) More…

There’s nothing didactic about Jonas Nordberg’s Dowland – nor does he wallow in the melancholy often associated with the English Renaissance master. Instead, the Swedish lutenist draws us into... — BBC Music Magazine, September 2022, 4 out of 5 stars More…