Browse: SACD, Bennett, R R (composer)

Chandos’s recording is full and rich... The Reflections on a sixteenth century tune is a real discovery that should surely be snapped up by Classic FM audiences. — MusicWeb International, July 2019 More…

Part of the success of the concertos performance certainly lies in Michael McHale’s high-energy fingers, confidently shifting between glittering decorations and bravura solo spurts. Meanwhile,... — BBC Music Magazine, July 2020, 4 out of 5 stars More…

The all-male New York Polyphony sing one-to-a-part, which gives a particular sense of purity and chasteness to their Christmas selection...The vocal blend is consistently velvety, the pitching... — BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2014, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Stimulating and disturbing: no cause to regret this issue and everything to celebrate. — MusicWeb International, 28th December 2016 More…

The performances of all these works, under the composer’s friend John Wilson, are exemplary. The players of the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra treat Bennett’s melodic lines with just the expressive... — BBC Music Magazine, October 2018, 5 out of 5 stars More…

The ensemble is at its best in the new music, which they sing with a stylish flair, and the more homophonic passages of Tallis, which they unfailingly imbue with direction and purpose. — Early Music Today More…

Was there anything he couldn’t say musically? No need to answer that, but rejoice in the fact that his friend and champion John Wilson is honouring him in this new series for Chandos…You will... — Gramophone Magazine, January 2018 More…