Resonus Classics

The enterprising Berkeley Ensemble has set up ‘The New Cobbett Prize or Chamber Music’, inspired by Walter Wilson Cobbett’s early 20th-century original. Here are the first fruits, in meticulous... — BBC Music Magazine, October 2019, 4 out of 5 stars More…

The St Catharine’s girls and women exhibit a gleamingly blended tonal quality, and an articulate engagement with the Latin text…[the men] produce a pleasingly focused sound, with fluid variation... — BBC Music Magazine, June 2017, 4 out of 5 stars More…

The disc is full of sensitively balanced, expressive performance, most of them sung unaccompanied…A jazzed-up God rest you merry, gentlemen and a chittering Jingle Bells bring fun into the equation,... — BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2017, 4 out of 5 stars More…

This is likeable stuff. Brown’s largely accessible style is most inventive in the depictions of countryside scenes from his childhood in the Clarinet Concerto, the central work here. — BBC Music Magazine, February 2019, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Not so much a polemic as an ironic, if desperately sad portrait of the man himself...Thantrey gives a powerhouse performance as Ward, wonderfully sustaining his cut-glass pronunciation, and... — Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2017 More…

The ‘master and pupil’ ethos runs through both the repertoire and Sestina’s modus operandi, and this gorgeous compilation of stylish interpretations is the classiest of calling-cards. — Choir & Organ, September 2022 More…