Delphian

Triplepipe, aulos, carnyx and Loughnashade horn: the odds are firmly against you ever having heard these dinosaurs of musical instrument history in action. This intriguing CD resurrects their... — BBC Music Magazine, October 2017, 4 out of 5 stars More…

This performance of Strauss's Deutsche Motette has the right quality of rapture...Credit to the conductor David Trendell for eliciting from his combined college choirs, whose youthful freshness... — BBC Music Magazine, October 2013, 4 out of 5 stars More…

…though, this is a disc of stunning music beautifully performed. — BBC Music Magazine, April 2009, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Invigorating and highly persuasive — Gramophone Magazine More…

Seriously fine performances - exceptional in Shostakovich's Eighth Quartet - of an attractively varied programme. — BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2014, 5 out of 5 stars More…

The 13 youthful voices of Siglo de Oro produce a fresh, ingenuous sound. Their timbre is open and expressive – the use of vibrato adding a tremulous urgency to some of the more emotive passages.... — BBC Music Magazine, March 2020, 4 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 5 out of 5 stars (Recording) 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…

Irvine and Pavri are persuasive exponents of this repertoire… — BBC Music Magazine, March 2008, 4 out of 5 stars 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…