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playing of considerable tonal subtlety, refinement and poise. — BBC Music Magazine, December 2011, 4 out of 5 stars More…

[The Three Songs of Robert Bridges] include some of the simpler and more appealing settings, with Roderick Williams’s lucid tone, straightforward manner and ability to match words and notes... — BBC Music Magazine, March 2021, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Lively, catchy and imaginative …The beautifully wrought Missa Brevis is a model of concise, integrated and well contrasted writing, with some inspired moments. — BBC Music Magazine, July 2020, 4 out of 5 stars More…

[the choir] perform them with admirable tuning and ensemble...There is equally admirable direction by Spicer, too, who applies the minutiae of his choral dexterity to a responsive and surprisingly... — Gramophone Magazine, February 2013 More…

The whole disc is great fun, and there is enough good musicianship behind the arrangements and the performances to sustain interest on repeated hearings. Well-balanced recorded sound and informative,... — Fanfare, Sep/Oct 2023 More…

Howick and Callaghan...are absolutely attuned and on form for the sultry Ravel, and John Ireland’s vigorous yet passionate First Violin Sonata, a work which emerges here as a great and grievously... — BBC Music Magazine, March 2021, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Bebbington brings a nice balance of swagger and thoughtfulness to this all-Gershwin programme. He has said he finds a “Mahlerian melancholy” in the second movement of the Concerto in F...and... — The Guardian, 9th July 2016, 4 out of 5 stars More…

All told, this is another feather in the cap for the increasingly impressive Vann-Royal Hospital Chelsea partnership. — BBC Music Magazine, July 2022, 4 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 5 out of 5 stars(Recording) More…

Denys Darlow conducts a fresh stylish performance with his London Handel Festival forces, recorded live at the Royal College of Music. Textures are clean and rhythms light and resilient, with... — Penguin Guide, 2010, 3 out of 4 stars More…

James Gilchrist, a fine lyric tenor with admirable sensitivity to text, gives committed performances effectively accompanied by Nathan Williamson. — BBC Music Magazine, January 2021, 4 out of 5 stars More…