Browse: Choral, Frances-Hoad (composer)

Watkins’s cycle shares Britten’s ability to meld text and musical gesture with an acuity seemingly effortless, almost plucked ready-formed out of the air...An exquisite release touched with poignant... — BBC Music Magazine, February 2023, 5 out of 5 stars More…

The group’s name suggests a band of wrongly imprisoned miscreants, but they make celestial sounds in Vaughan Williams’s neo-plainsong The Truth Sent from Above and Holst’s Lullay My Liking. The... — Sunday Times, 15th December 2019 More…

this Advent showcase features conductors Andrew Nethsingha and George Herbert and, fascinatingly, three iterations of the choir, with and without female voices – and though the performances lack... — BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2023, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Someone should commission a music theatre piece from Cheryl Frances Hoad: this disc reveals a dramatic instinct straining at the leash....Jennifer Johnston is a superb advocate, the glossy depth... — BBC Music Magazine, January 2015, 4 out of 5 stars More…

The Marian Consort’s performances deliver full value in terms of expressive range and sophistication. Pitch-perfect tuning and immaculately clean ensemble grace the poised accounts of James MacMillan’s... — BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2017, 3 out of 5 stars More…