Founded under the auspices of the Ralph Vaughan Williams Society, the label has built a catalogue that consistently rescues, restores and reilluminates corners of the RVW repertoire that the bigger labels have long overlooked. Rise, Heart is another exemplary addition to that enterprise and one of the most rewarding Vaughan Williams discs of recent memory. The premise is characteristically thoughtful: every track here is a first recording of the work in the version presented. At its centre stands the Five Mystical Songs, those luminous settings of George Herbert first heard in 1911, given in Vaughan Williams's own arrangement for voice, piano and string quintet, made around 1925 and seldom performed.

There’s also a sense of lived-in joy running through the album. Snippets of everyday life and understated details give it a human touch, grounding the polished production in something real. It makes the listening experience feel less like a performance and more like an invitation into her world.

Rather than revisiting past glories, T’Pau has created something that feels relevant in 2026. It’s an album that respects their legacy while refusing to be confined by it.

In Passing How swiftly the strained honey of afternoon light flows into darkness and the closed bud shrugs off its special mystery in order to break into blossom: as if what exists, exists so that it can be lost and become precious Lisel Mueller’s poem of natural evanescence is rendered with a delicacy that befits a barely perceptible transitioning of forms.

Elisha plays Cakey/Baby Box in the UK premiere of Gabby's Dollhouse Live! She is from Hull and trained at the Midlands Academy of Dance and Drama. Previous credits include Peppa Pig’s Fun Day Out, Peppa Pig’s Best Day Ever, Peppa Pig’s My First Concert and Ben & Holly’s Little Kingdom Live. She loves children's theatre, describing it as "challenging but very rewarding".

Holly Humberstone has always excelled at turning private emotions into something quietly universal, but Cruel World feels like the moment her artistry fully crystallises. It’s a record that doesn’t just document growing up—it immerses you in the disorientation, thrill, and fragility of it, capturing the strange blur between who you were and who you’re becoming.

Pennines in April If this county were a sea (that is solid rock Deeper than any sea) these hills heaving Out of the east, mass behind mass, at this height Hoisting heather and stones to the sky Must burst upwards and topple into Lancashire. Perhaps, as the earth turns, such ground-stresses Do come rolling westward through the locked land.