Hi Res Download, Tavener (composer)

Imaginative, sensitive programming has been a constant feature of Ruby Hughes’s collaborations; and this latest with the perennially adventurous Manchester Collective is no exception...A disc... — BBC Music Magazine, March 2024, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Among the contemporary offerings, the always responsive, well-integrated choral forces bring a serene, reverential simplicity to John Tavener’s setting of The Lord’s Prayer and in Roxanna Panufnik's... — BBC Music Magazine, July 2024, 4 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 5 out of 5 stars (Recording) More…

These are among Tavener’s most powerful works. They are magnificently performed. Those simple points could easily be lost in the necessity of charting not just the diverse range of music and... — BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2020, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Barley’s playing [of The Protecting Veil] at first feels a touch too restrained, but as the piece progresses [his] restraint proves perfectly judged and a performance of great tenderness and... — BBC Music Magazine, August 2019, 4 out of 5 stars More…

There may have been many Tavener choral CDs in recent years, but this one is very special. — Choir & Organ, May/June 2019, 5 out of 5 stars More…

One doesn’t often find Thomas Tallis, Edward Elgar and John Tavener sandwiching Massive Attack, but the lovely Teardrop works astonishingly well in this mixed programme devoted to the concept... — Choir & Organ, May 2015, 4 out of 5 stars More…

As a concept, this collection of songs inspired by rugged British landscapes is intriguing. The delivery is powerful, but borders on twee at moments. — BBC Music Magazine, April 2019, 2 out of 5 stars More…

The award-winning group Voces 8 is well-known for its wide-ranging programmes and accomplished technical control...In Monteverdi's Cantate Dominum (this is his 1620 setting, not the 1615 one)... — BBC Music Magazine, December 2012, 4 out of 5 stars More…

The experienced choral director Paul Spicer is an ideal advocate of this varied repertoire, in both his interpretations and his booklet notes. The glory of his Birmingham student choir is its... — BBC Music Magazine, September 2020, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Bestion’s singers are very flexible, and frequently superb...they are equal to Scelsi’s quartertones; and they can sing ‘straight’ when needed. These stylistic shifts are not jarring. — Gramophone Magazine, March 2022 More…