Browse: Benjamin Nicholas (conductor)

This outstanding recording of Gabriel Jackson’s retelling of the Passion story bursts with energy... Jackson’s engaging score is richly colourful and his instrumental writing proves a particular... — BBC Music Magazine, June 2019 More…

Working in a broadly traditional style, he explores a harmonic world of blurred but euphonious richness, the writing skilled and unfailingly effective…These beautifully shaped performances by... — BBC Music Magazine, November 2018, 4 out of 5 stars More…

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…

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 the... — Gramophone Magazine, August 2023 More…

How does one bring freshness to 'Praise to the Lord' or 'For lo I raise up'? The answer would seem to be group experience, for Benjamin Nicholas's soloists all come from the ranks of the choir... — International Record Review, July/August 2011 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
singing... — 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…

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…