Browse: Mathias - Jesus College Service, Op. 53

Central to this valuable anthology of Mathias's church music is the tautly concentrated Missa brevis of 1973. It’s the outer movements that are most impressive, the Kyrie drawn tensely together... — BBC Music Magazine, June 2009, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Everything here is sung with freshness, security and rhythmic energy, and only at the biggest climaxes does one miss an ideal fullness of sound…the soloists [in Riddles] are from the main Choir... — BBC Music Magazine, April 2020, 4 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 3 out of 5 stars (Recording) More…

The St. Albans Abbey Girls’ Choir proves to be an impressive choir who along with the Lay Clerks of St. Albans Cathedral Choir deliver some very fine performances. The recording from St. Albans... — The Classical Reviewer, September 2016 More…

King’s is King’s, and its steadfast traditions – of sound production as much as procedure (as in the wholly counterintuitive pointing of its psalter) – is its wonder. Finzi’s Lo, the full final... — Gramophone Magazine, January 2020 More…

Christ Church, Oxford, has produced another distinguished recording, with Stephen Darlington conducting a choir fully in sympathy with William Mathias's choral music. And what an attractive programme... — Gramophone Magazine More…