All the usual debates about historically informed performance can be left aside by the power of the music...Mostly sedate in character, Riddle Songs is not so much introverted as contemplative, a historical perspective not only on the past but on the present.

Taking its cue from Anglo-Saxon poetry, this mesmerising album from the British singer and composer is the perfect companion for a long winter’s evening, and springs surprises at every turn. The spare beauty of the Rune Poems for upper voices and Conner’s solos to her own lyre accompaniment are interspersed with starkly powerful contributions from vocal ensemble Everlasting Voices, and it’s all wonderfully captured by Delphian’s engineers – close your eyes and you’ll be transported to a candlelit crypt on a chilly Northern night

Beguiling ... there is compelling charm in this music that stems from Conner’s own self-belief in her self-confessed passions.