Albion Records

A group of folk song arrangements elicits breezy, rhythmically engaging performances from the Royal Hospital singers…Vann’s conducting is both energising and unobtrusive, and the sound is pleasingly... — BBC Music Magazine, November 2018, 4 out of 5 stars More…

A dark-toned, introspective harmonisation of ‘Coventry Carol’ and a jaunty ‘I Saw Three Ships’ stand out particularly. Clear-toned, welcoming performances. — BBC Music Magazine, Christmas Issue 2018, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Although this was a live performance [of the Tudor Portraits] slips are few and there is a real feeling of a live occasion. Nell Rankin sings with real commitment as do the choir...[Young's]... — MusicWeb International, August 2012 More…

The septet of players from the Britten Sinfonia…ensure that Vaughan Williams’s music, by turns playful, lithe and sensually alluring, is winningly projected, and the baritone Philip Smith contributes... — BBC Music Magazine, July 2016, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Roderick Williams… is entrusted with all but five of these 20 songs - and a sterling job he does, too, with intelligent word-pointing and the voice sonorous, firmly focused and evenly controlled.... — Gramophone Magazine, September 2008 More…

Murrill’s four-hand transcription, masterly though it may be, is something of a curate’s egg…But once the harmonic gears begin to grind in the first movement, the performance becomes compelling,... — BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2021, 4 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 5 out of 5 stars (Recording) More…

It might seem a dubious idea to take out of mothballs a work written specifically for its composer's Doctor of Music degree - surely a recipe for academic conformity and little else? Coming... — BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2014, 3 out of 5 stars More…

A thoroughly attractive disc in every respect from a superb choir. — MusicWeb International, 23rd February 2017 More…