Delphian

Three works for chorus with an instrument or two...Weir’s title piece, with clarinet (Hannah Lawrance) on top of percussion and keyboard, evokes five colours in four movements — most notably... — Sunday Times, 4th October 2020 More…

Their ‘How lovely is thy dwelling-place’ has a nimble, self-effacing sweetness…Bevan consoles with richly penetrating ardour…Pianists Richard Uttley and James Baillieu glide ably through, generating... — BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2017, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Berger's grainy baritone is pleasing more than awe-inspiring...But he communicates with keen enthusiasm, and his word-lively Mozart Abendempfindung immediately draws the listener in to this... — BBC Music Magazine, February 2013, 3 out of 5 stars More…

Glenton’s own diminutions are gently and lightly patted into the larger musical line. And together with Wollston’s calm, the whole thing sways like a dance made of chiffon. — Gramophone Magazine, January 2022 More…

Byram-Wigfield takes all in his unflappable stride, the opening carefully layered, the control scrupulous throughout, though almost to a fault when the sheer lucidity refuses to surrender to... — BBC Music Magazine, April 2016, 3 out of 5 stars More…

These are not performances for those who like their Britten to sound like the Choir of King's College Cambridge in the days of David Willcocks. All preciosity has gone; the vowels are open and... — BBC Music Magazine, January 2014, 4 out of 5 stars More…

He addresses that Everest on the landscape of Bach’s keyboard writing, and with characteristically unshowy yet compelling results. He’s up against stiff opposition of course…But there’s an honesty... — BBC Music Magazine, June 2018, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Music of high organisation, clarity and expressive power here from Rory Boyle…Langton’s technique is sure, his musicianship all-encompassing and his head balanced with his heart. — Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2017 More…

Beamish combin[es] words and music in a direct and often confrontational manner...the overall impression remains one of elements that complement each other at a remove: the music tending to... — Gramophone Magazine, January 2011 More…

Through it all the four members of Concerto Caledonia show that when it comes to musical flexibility and performing zeal, they lack for nothing. This is a disc which for all the thorough academic... — International Record Review, September 2013 More…