Benjamin Nicholas

The 18 uninterrupted minutes of Copland's a cappella In the Beginning are a major test of any choir's stamina and concentration, and it's one the Mertonians pass with confidence...[Beth Mackay]... — BBC Music Magazine, December 2011, 4 out of 5 stars More…

the jutting vocal fanfares of [Weir's] Ave Regina caelorum set a brightly celebratory atmosphere at the disc's beginning...The seven-part writing of Hannah Kendall's numinous Regina caeli is... — BBC Music Magazine, Awards Issue 2015, 4 out of 5 stars More…

I've been consistently impressed by the work of Benjamin Nicholas and his Tewkesbury singers on the Delphian label ... the recorded sound is never short on detail thanks not least to the full-blooded... — Classic FM Magazine, April 2009 More…

…the boys sing with sonorous and rounded tone. Rarely can the choir have sounded on better form than they do here — Organists Review More…

Benjamin Nicholas maintains excellent control of his forces in a recording that is sonorously generous and forward in sound. The Merton choirs (including the soloists) are in fine voice and... — Gramophone Magazine, August 2023 More…

Even when Rutter's very obviously in crowd-pleasing mode...the vernal freshness of the Tewkesbury boys' voices strips off the cloying patina more knowing, self-conscious adult voices often add... — BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2012, 4 out of 5 stars More…

There remains an intensity of passionate utterance in the most striking of Weelkes's works, balanced by a sober moderation in much else. He himself, as we learn from contemporary accounts, was... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 More…

the Merton choir's singing is notable for its clarity. The polyphonic lines of Byrd's Diliges Dominum, the antiphonal effects of Harris's classic Faire is the heaven and even the dense textures... — Gramophone Magazine, April 2016 More…

I can see this recording being popular and deservedly so — Cathedral Music More…