there are surprises awaiting you in this new recording … this is a beautiful performance of Allegri’s masterpiece, with a strongly devotional atmosphere to it. Suzi Digby’s tempo gives the music space to resonate, the engineers find an evocatively distanced acoustic in which to set the solo quartet, and the ORA singers’ thoughtful, introspective phrasing distils a sense of spirituality difficult to communicate on record

Yet again this group shows its considerable skill not only in expressive interpretation but in clarity of lines, subtlety of expression, and an ability to maintain an introspective atmosphere throughout

Do you hear the grain of the polyphony and its twisting strands in this performance? Yes, rather more than from the ultra-smooth Collegium Vocale Gent … Digby opens with Ben Byram Wigfield’s new edition of Allegri’s Miserere, not quite as radically different from the known version as Graham O’Reilly’s but sharing some of the Australian’s distilling features and one alluring chromatic restoration.

This is a programme that is as imaginative as it is varied. It has been thoughtfully conceived and the music is stimulating at every turn. As on their previous release, Suzi Digby and ORA prove themselves to be equally accomplished in music of the ‘Golden Age’ and in music of our own time. From start to finish the singing is superb and Digby and her ensemble lead the listener’s ear through the repertoire most persuasively

Everything here is heard to best advantage, thanks to the choir’s clean, supple singing under Suzi Digby’s direction.

there’s a great clarity vertically through the voices; there’s more warmth, there’s more personality on the sound than we get from some English choirs…[they] flourish in a slightly more soloistic style…it’s a thoughtfully assembled, beautifully sung recital