Delphian

treated with real imagination...The bending pitches and haunting, wavering timbres are used in original fantasies by Anna Friederike Potengowski and Georg Wieland Wagner, and even extend to... — The Observer, 30th April 2017, 3 out of 5 stars More…

The performers, above all pianist Simon Smith, lavish every possible care on the music. They bring out the occasional moments of poetry, but they can’t hide the rhythmic squareness or the prevailing... — The Telegraph, 29th July 2009, 2 out of 5 stars More…

the Merton choir's singing is notable for its clarity. The polyphonic lines of Byrd's Diliges Dominum, the antiphonal effects of Harris's classic Faire is the heaven and even the dense textures... — Gramophone Magazine, April 2016 More…

Irvine responds to each piece with the same sincerity, imagination and technical assurance; lovely playing, captured in warm, natural sound. A well-produced document of a very worthwhile project. — Gramophone Magazine, October 2016 More…

Smith demonstrates complete empathy with Schnittke's distinctive sound-world. His playing has great dramatic immediacy...Altogether these are compelling and utterly persuasive accounts. — BBC Music Magazine, June 2014, 4 out of 5 stars More…

In only a few years the choir has established itself as one of the leading collegiate choirs in the UK. This, its third disc for Delphian, confirms that it is now, surely, one of the jewels... — MusicWeb International, 12th November 2013 More…

Francis Jackson is very much the elder statesman of the British organ community…and while his organ pieces are well represented on disc, his choral music is less well known. Yet his output for... — Gramophone Magazine More…

Joined by the lower voices of Merton College Choir, the Girl Choristers exhibit a crystalline clarity of tone in the traditional Rocking Carol, and full-voiced attack in Joubert ’s Torc he s.... — BBC Music Magazine, Chrstmas 2022, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Nicholas judges expertly the variety of colours in his performance...The new Dobson organ is a splendid addition to Merton College Chapel. — MusicWeb International, 12th June 2014 More…