Andrew Staples

The two choral works showcase the unforced sensitivity of the London Choral Sinfonia, who skilfully avoid overheating the patriotism of Kipling’s text for ‘Land of our Birth’, and the funerary... — BBC Music Magazine, June 2024, 4 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 5 out of 5 stars (Recording) More…

The Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra under Daniel Harding throws some grit into the opening fanfares [of Les Illuminations], but soon demonstrates its refinement and range of tone colour...Staples... — BBC Music Magazine, October 2022, 4 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 5 out of 5 stars (Recording) More…

Richly harmonised Edwardian salon settings of distinguished poetry mingle with mildly poignant, almost Ravelian (though avoiding that French master’s occasional acerbic tartness) post-World... — BBC Music Magazine, May 2021, 4 out of 5 stars More…

There’s no recording yet of his 2017 opera The Girl of the Golden West (you can blame the industry’s economics), but every other milestone since the mid-1980s is here in performances that continue... — Sunday Times, 7th December 2022 More…

All five singers have clearly grasped the importance of Rorem's text-based conception of song, 'poetry as expressed through the voice' and they sing - albeit in resolutely English English which... — BBC Music Magazine, February 2010, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Roderick Williams… is entrusted with all but five of these 20 songs - and a sterling job he does, too, with intelligent word-pointing and the voice sonorous, firmly focused and evenly controlled.... — Gramophone Magazine, September 2008 More…