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Corp's war requiem is ambitious, eclectic and just skirts the memorable. Hurd's cantata on John Clare poems boasts a haunting slow movement and eloquent baritone Roderick Williams. — BBC Music Magazine, May 2012, 3 out of 5 stars More…

Dutton is certainly to be congratulated on offering such a worthwhile disc of British music otherwise likely to be neglected, superbly played and vividly recorded. — Gramophone Magazine, May 2010 More…

[Country Matters] are set with brio, to a deftly fashioned quartet accompaniment, in a style mixing Facade-style Waltonian Sprechgesang with melodic writing. Mark Wilde and the Maggini Quartet... — BBC Music Magazine, October 2011, 4 out of 5 stars More…

the songs are nicely contrasted, and though the conservative idiom suggests music that could have been written in the 1930s, the results are always attractive...All told, a welcome disc to add... — Gramophone Magazine, February 2011 More…

Known mainly as a conductor of light music, Corp's sunny String Quartet, spiky cantata, and flowing Clarinet Quintet mark him out as an engagingly colourful composer. Excellent performances. — BBC Music Magazine, June 2013, 4 out of 5 stars More…

such is soloist Alice Neary's skill in not over-playing her hand too early [in the Howells] that the unfolding of the material seems pleasingly organic. Her mellow, elegiac tone suits perfectly... — BBC Music Magazine, Awards Issue 2015, 3 out of 5 stars More…