Browse: Stewart, C H (composer)

Nethsingha treats each psalm as a mini tone-poem of vocal affects, each line inflected in distinctive ways to elicit meaning and emotion from the biblical text...There is a danger, of course,... — BBC Music Magazine, November 2022, 4 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 5 out of 5 stars (Recording) More…

Here is another sterling installment in the series of recordings of The Complete New English Hymnal. The choir produces a refined pure, unified tone. This, along with the other volumes in the... — The American Organist More…

Any hint of the routine – the choir’s director Andrew Nethsingha has over 8,000 evensong services to his credit – is immediately dissipated in a rapt rendition of Julian Anderson’s anthem My... — BBC Music Magazine, May 2022, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Here is some of the finest treble singing I have heard in my years: one need look no further than this recording for an example of the English Cathedral choral tradition at its best." — Organists Review More…

[Rushforth] proves to be a generous and sympathetic champion of his predecessor's music and elevates these pieces to moments of real musical affection. A disc of warm-hearted music played with... — Gramophone Magazine, February 2012 More…

a fine recital and a benefit to this series — Gramophone Magazine More…

There is no doubt that this is first-rate chanting by one of the finest choirs in England — American Record Guide More…

The intense pleasure and satisfaction to be gleaned from these discs is hard to explain to the uninitiated. Huw Williams'accompaniments are models of sensitivity and discretion and John Scott’s... — Gramophone Magazine More…