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Wait until the neighbours are out, turn up the volume, give your speakers a thorough workout and yourself a tingle up the spine. Full organ. Blazing magnificence. No one plays this sort of repertoire... — Gramophone Magazine, January 2024 More…

Like much other music written for cathedral choirs, the works on this disc often inhabit an engaging post-Vaughan Williams world, with a periodic sprinkling of spice in the harmony, but nothing... — BBC Music Magazine, December 2019, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Pascoe’s large-scale choral work has some sublime a cappella moments and big, bold orchestral writing, though the word-setting is occasionally awkward. It receives first-rate performances right... — BBC Music Magazine, January 2023, 4 out of 5 stars More…

The Prince Regent’s Band score brownie points by adhering to Ewald’s original scoring, in this case a pair of cornets, althorn, baritone and tuba, instead of the standard line-up of two trumpets,... — The Arts Desk, 25th November 2017 More…

all fulsomely rendered, though acoustically a little inconsistent, in rare arrangements with period orchestra. — BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2023, 3 out of 5 stars More…

This is in equal parts brilliant and a bit bonkers. Bolcom’s Black Host is not for the faint-hearted. — BBC Music Magazine, December 2021, 3 out of 5 stars More…

A fascinating anthology tracing the development of a distinctive voice in American choral music. Half the items are first recordings, and the performances are consistently outstanding. — BBC Music Magazine, June 2014, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Written with practicality in mind, Ayres’s anthems are all about generous simplicity: big, juicy unison lines, warm three- or four-part homophony and affirmative, tonal-with-a-scrunch harmonies.... — Gramophone Magazine, February 2021 More…

La Maîtrise de Toulouse is a choir of children and young adults, who offer fresh voices and sing Latin texts with French vowels – as is entirely appropriate, of course, for this repertoire...the... — BBC Music Magazine, April 2023, 4 out of 5 stars More…

These young voices bring a delightful freshness to this demanding repertoire. — Choir & Organ, March 2018, 5 out of 5 stars More…

the disc feels as if it has been crafted with infinite care and love, and for that reason alone it is a joy to listen to...they sing with all the confident, sustained tone of an ensemble steeped... — Gramophone Magazine, September 2014 More…

this mixed boy-girl French choir makes a vigorous, refreshing sound on its debut CD. The voices are full of enthusiastic stresses in the Britten, digging out his staccato Benedictus with robotic... — Classic FM Magazine, April 2011, 4 out of 5 stars More…

[Robinson's] lockdown labours have resulted in an ideal mix of the new, the daring, the entertaining and a classic masterpiece...A feast of an album, beautifully produced and with first-rate... — Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2022 More…

The unaccompanied pieces fare particularly well, especially the disc’s title-track...In comparison to the Westminster Abbey Choir’s disc of music by Bairstow, Harris and Stanford, the Tewkesbury... — Gramophone Magazine, July 2020 More…

David Hill’s gorgeously coherent programme from Peterborough showcases some of the best of the genre by a septet of English-born composers...Needless to say that [his] enthusiasm for this generous... — Gramophone Magazine, November 2020 More…

A lovely idea, and there are some gems here, but I’m not sure that most of these miniatures are ‘keepers’. — BBC Music Magazine, January 2019, 2 out of 5 stars More…

Rounded, velvet tones; impeccably secure intonation; sweetly subtle dynamics: I felt I was taking a sumptuous bath in nothing but golden syrup…everything here is nimble and bright, and well worth... — BBC Music Magazine, April 2017, 4 out of 5 stars More…