Browse: Kings College (label)

Formidable tunes from across the liturgical year in engaging arrangements by choirmaster Stephen Cleobury. The choir’s diction and tuning are excellent. — BBC Music Magazine, October 2016, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Christopher Purves sings magnificently, spinning an enviable thread of legato through the narrative of each song. A consummate actor, too, with commanding diction, he invariably finds a distinctive... — BBC Music Magazine, July 2023, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Gowers conveys the fundamental musicality of the work. There is a sense here that he feels the music, that he shares much of Messiaen’s vision and that he knows exactly what he wants the music... — Gramophone Magazine, December 2018 More…

The King's performance [of the Parry] is predictably idiomatic, if a touch carefully preened and respectful...[Ireland's] is a more explicitly dramatic setting, and the singers seem to relish... — BBC Music Magazine, Awards Issue 2015, 4 out of 5 stars More…

The standard of the performance is high, so long as you want a liturgical version, one that might be used at a service...This is an educative set, and it is interesting to listen to the alternative... — BBC Music Magazine, July 2013, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Mostly the pieces here are austere, and none approaches the grandeur of Bruckner’s biggest choral works. But they are unostentationally moving, and never more than on this, Cleobury’s last disc. — BBC Music Magazine, March 2021, 5 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 4 out of 5 stars (Recording) More…