Matthew Owens

The whole setting memorably commingles an anxious, questing quality with glimpses of certitude and placidity, a balance sensitively struck in this assured Wells Cathedral performance. — BBC Music Magazine, October 2013, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Central to this valuable anthology of Mathias's church music is the tautly concentrated Missa brevis of 1973. It’s the outer movements that are most impressive, the Kyrie drawn tensely together... — BBC Music Magazine, June 2009, 4 out of 5 stars More…

This is a truly important release, all premiere recordings of works composed between 2014 and 2019 by a master craftsman. — Gramophone Magazine, May 2022 More…

it is not an easy piece to sing convincingly. There is, though, nothing at all tentative about this fervently committed performance by the Wells Cathedral Choir, a group with special connections... — BBC Music Magazine, November 2016, 4 out of 5 stars More…

The choir’s tonal purity and impeccable tuning are a pleasure, bringing plangency and repose to Philip Stopford’s ‘Lullay, my liking’, and a welling splendour to Philip Wilby’s ‘Moonless darkness... — BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2021, 5 out of 5 stars More…

[an] authoritative performance, with uniformly excellent soloists and the sensitive organ playing of Jonathan Vaughn. — Choir & Organ, March/April 2015 More…

Francis Jackson is very much the elder statesman of the British organ community…and while his organ pieces are well represented on disc, his choral music is less well known. Yet his output for... — Gramophone Magazine More…

there's so much freshness, attack and palpable involvement...not least from the consistently excellent boy and girl choristers. Dove's music is splendidly effective and birghtly expressive. — BBC Music Magazine, November 2010, 4 out of 5 stars More…