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The singing of the Boston Handel and Haydn Society Chorus is spirited throughout, with Harry Christophers highlighting some of the work's most expressive moments, notably the agonised Crucifixus,... — BBC Music Magazine, December 2012, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Christophers has here programmed as deftly as Purcell wrote...The performers are few – eight vocalists, two recorders, a 12-string band plus continuo – fleet and wonderfully bold. In laments,... — BBC Music Magazine, December 2020, 4 out of 5 stars More…

These Haydn performances with the period players of the venerable Handel and Haydn Society...are as insightful in their way as anything [Christophers] has done with his own choir The Sixteen...Christophers... — BBC Music Magazine, Christmas Issue 2013, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Nosky is clearly the personality at the centre of these performances, audibly directing from the front, in contrast to (for example) Isabelle Faust, whose voice emerges as if organically from... — Gramophone Magazine, March 2021 More…

There is some impressive music here, such as ‘Hark! Hark! Just now my Listening Ears’ sung stylishly by one of the stars of the disc, the tenor Hugo Hymas. — BBC Music Magazine, September 2021, 4 out of 5 stars More…

[Symphony] the overall effect is classic MacMillan: musically eclectic (from radiantly tonal to blisteringly dissonant), powerfully dramatic, and filled with ecstatic textural contrasts...Even... — Fanfare, September/October 2020 More…

Christophers leads a trim, affectionate performance of Purcell’s last (unfinished) semi-opera. The musical forces are small and flexible, and though some previous recordings bring more star... — Financial Times, 28th February 2015, 4 out of 5 stars More…