Browse: Delphian (label)

From a shimmering 'Shieling Song' to a shaded sea shanty, Mackenzie plays with appropriate panache. — BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2023, 3 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 4 out of 5 stars Recording) More…

Do not be fooled by the music’s seeming inactivity, for the insubstantiality [of Finnis's Devotions] is a mirage, the inner workings, derived from the ‘Heiliger Dankegesang’ movement of Beethoven’s... — Gramophone Magazine, January 2024 More…

There's a 20-minute orchestral piece, Wild Flow, but the others are chamber-scaled. The title piece, a melodrama to poems about the plight of migrants, read by the author Sinéad Morrissey, does,... — Sunday Times, 17th May 2020 More…

Working in a broadly traditional style, he explores a harmonic world of blurred but euphonious richness, the writing skilled and unfailingly effective…These beautifully shaped performances by... — BBC Music Magazine, November 2018, 4 out of 5 stars More…

The Epiphoni Consort sings splendidly. Every element one looks for in choral singing can be found here—blend, balance, intonation, and clarity of diction, along with depth of feeling. Occasional... — Fanfare, Jan/Feb 2021 More…

The 18 uninterrupted minutes of Copland's a cappella In the Beginning are a major test of any choir's stamina and concentration, and it's one the Mertonians pass with confidence...[Beth Mackay]... — BBC Music Magazine, December 2011, 4 out of 5 stars More…

The performances are for the most part superb. The amplitude of Burns’s voice, with its bright warmth of tone and wonderful gleam at the top, confers a certain grandeur of scale on the proceedings,... — Gramophone Magazine, February 2024 More…

The most striking feature of this entertainingly varied collection is the consistently fresh, fruit-ripe tonal quality of the Marian Consort's singing…sensitive unison singing, and a firm bass... — BBC Music Magazine, November 2015 More…

Valentina Montoya Martinez gives the central character a full-flavoured vocal embodiment, intelligently supported by Juanjo Lopez Vidal as the narrator figure…Additional authenticity is supplied... — BBC Music Magazine, April 2018, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Hill establishes his voice from the outset with fluid, velvet-toned playing and a predominantly introspective, rather than showy approach...In short, these are exquisitely poetic and, above all,... — BBC Music Magazine, September 2013, 5 out of 5 stars More…