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Exceptionally polished performances … mightily impressive vocal control from the 13 year old Norwegian treble. The arias are well chosen. — BBC Music Magazine, December 2016, 4 out of 5 stars More…

There’s an energy and freedom which takes the work away from its sometimes strait-jacketed perfromances. — BBC Music Magazine, November 2016 More…

The Smith Quartet's razor-sharp intensity is particularly suited to the evocation of macabre soundscapes, and there is plenty of it here, from the edgy agoraphobia opening Tim Souster's Hambledon... — Gramophone Magazine, October 2007 More…

Revisiting this exhilarating performance, it is little wonder that Haydn exclaimed he ‘had no idea we had such an opera in the English language’. — BBC Music Magazine, September 2021, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Kah-Ming Ng has added wind, a move both arguable and effective, to these 12 string concertos. ..although these 40 movements are brief, only two over two minutes, they are refreshingly varied... — BBC Music Magazine, June 2009, 4 out of 5 stars More…

With its 101 stops spread over five manuals this organ offers an incredibly rich palette of sounds. The greatest revelations on the disc are the linked pair of pieces by Thalben-Ball. The Poema... — Gramophone Magazine, January 2010 More…

What’s not to love? It’s a typically varied programme which reaches across the decades, performed with pitch-perfect vivacity and no small amount of joy. Very glad tidings. — BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2021, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Alongside Malcolm Martineau's searching piano, the singers find a consistent character: considered, spacious, unaffected but cumulatively intense, to the extent that you may need to pause and... — BBC Music Magazine, June 2011, 5 out of 5 stars More…