Albion Records

Although this was a live performance [of the Tudor Portraits] slips are few and there is a real feeling of a live occasion. Nell Rankin sings with real commitment as do the choir...[Young's]... — MusicWeb International, August 2012 More…

A dark-toned, introspective harmonisation of ‘Coventry Carol’ and a jaunty ‘I Saw Three Ships’ stand out particularly. Clear-toned, welcoming performances. — BBC Music Magazine, Christmas Issue 2018, 4 out of 5 stars More…

The septet of players from the Britten Sinfonia…ensure that Vaughan Williams’s music, by turns playful, lithe and sensually alluring, is winningly projected, and the baritone Philip Smith contributes... — BBC Music Magazine, July 2016, 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…

Murrill’s four-hand transcription, masterly though it may be, is something of a curate’s egg…But once the harmonic gears begin to grind in the first movement, the performance becomes compelling,... — BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2021, 4 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 5 out of 5 stars (Recording) More…

It might seem a dubious idea to take out of mothballs a work written specifically for its composer's Doctor of Music degree - surely a recipe for academic conformity and little else? Coming from... — BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2014, 3 out of 5 stars More…