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Vocal Recitals

  • More Songs My Father Taught Me - Thomas Allen; Malcolm Martineau
  • Maria - Celilia Bartoli
  • Im Chambre Separee - Barbara Bonney
  • Stabat Mater - Philippe Jaroussky
  • Songs My Mother Taught Me - Magdelena Kozena
  • Lorraine Hunt Lieberson - In Ravina
  • Lullabies - Montserrat Figueras; various accompanists
  • Opera Arias - Netrebko; Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra / Noseda
  • Duets - Anna Netrebko; Rolando Villazon
  • Terezín / Theresienstadt - Von Otter; Gerhaher; Hope; Forsberg; Huber; Knight etc
  • Midsummer Night - Kate Royal; Orchestra of English National Opera / Gardner
  • Arcadia - Andreas Scholl; Accademia Bizantina / Dantone
  • Crystal Tears - Andreas Scholl
  • Silent Noon - Bryn Terfel; Malcolm Martineau
  • Bad Boys - Bryn Terfel
  • Eternal Light - Elin Manahan Thomas; Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment / Christophers

    Orchestral Recitals

  • 200 Years of the Music of Versailles: A Journey to the Heart of French Baroque
  • Fiesta - Simon Bolivar Youth Orchestra / Dudamel
  • The Jazz Album - London Sinfonietta / Rattle

    Choral Recitals

  • Baltic Exchange - Choir of Trinity College, Cambridge
  • The Cherry Tree - Anonymous 4
  • The Christmas Story - Theatre of Voices
  • Felix Femina - Canty
  • Fire Burning in Snow - Ex Cathedra / Skidmore
  • High Flight - The King's Singers
  • Jerusalem - Jordi Savall
  • Love & Lament - Soloists Ensemble Cappella Figuralis; Netherlands Bach Society / van Veldhoven
  • Moon, Sun and All Things - Ex Cathedra / Skidmore
  • Officium Novum - Garbarek; Hilliard Ensemble
  • Puer Natus Est - Stile Antico
  • La Quinta Essentia - Huelgas Ensemble
  • Requiem - Conspirare
  • Santiago a Cappella - Monteverdi Choir / Gardiner
  • Scotland at Night - Laudibus / Brewer
  • A Mother's Love - The Sixteen / Christophers


  • Chamber Music Collections

  • Czech Piano Trios - Florestan Trio
  • Late Night Sessions - Concerto Caledonia
  • The Cold Dancer - Edinburgh Quartet
  • The Celtic Viol - Savall; Lawrence-King
  • Devil's Trills - Nemanja Radulovic
  • French Bassoon Works - Geoghegan; Fisher
  • Garden of Early Delights - Thorby; Lawrence-King
  • The Goat Rodeo Sessions - Yo-Yo Ma, et al
  • Gypsic - Nemtanu, et al
  • Homage - James Ehnes
  • Knotwork - Works by McGuire, Piazzolla, Fitkin etc - Fell Clarinet Quartet
  • Live in Buenos Aires - Joanna MacGregor
  • String Quartets - Leipzig String Quartet
  • Lugano Festival 2008
  • Lugano Festival 2009
  • Lugano Festival 2010
  • The Cold Dancer - Edinburgh Quartet
  • French String Quartets - Quatuor Ebene


  • Instrumental recitals

  • Alison Balsom - Seraph
  • Rachel Barton Pine - Capricho Latino
  • Lisa Batiashvili - Echoes of Time
  • Nicola Benedetti - Fantasie
  • Nicola Benedetti - Italia
  • Stephen Hough - In Recital
  • Janine Jansen - violin favourites
  • Amjad Ali Khan - Samaagam. Three Ragas
  • Albrecht Mayer in Venice - Mayer; New Seasons Ensemble
  • Usher Hall Organ - John Kitchen
  • Adeste Fideles - Thomas Laing-Reilly
  • Milos - The Guitar
  • Historic Organs of Groningen
  • Memories of Childhood - Works by Tchaikovsky, Mussorgsky, Glinka, Rubinstein, Scriabin and Shostakovich - Brigitte Engerer
  • Viktoria Mullova - Recital
  • John Ogdon 70th Anniversary Edition
  • Jennifer Pike - Recital
  • Rostropovich - Concertos & Encores
  • Sonidos Latinos - David Russell
  • The Incomparable Serkin - Serkin; Rostropovich; LSO / Abbado
  • Dance - Kathryn Stott
  • Horowitz in Hamburg - the final concert