Regent

Wait until the neighbours are out, turn up the volume, give your speakers a thorough workout and yourself a tingle up the spine. Full organ. Blazing magnificence. No one plays this sort of repertoire... — Gramophone Magazine, January 2024 More…

Like much other music written for cathedral choirs, the works on this disc often inhabit an engaging post-Vaughan Williams world, with a periodic sprinkling of spice in the harmony, but nothing... — BBC Music Magazine, December 2019, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Pascoe’s large-scale choral work has some sublime a cappella moments and big, bold orchestral writing, though the word-setting is occasionally awkward. It receives first-rate performances right... — BBC Music Magazine, January 2023, 4 out of 5 stars More…

all fulsomely rendered, though acoustically a little inconsistent, in rare arrangements with period orchestra. — BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2023, 3 out of 5 stars More…

Notable is director Robert Sharpe’s masterly handling of Howells’s St Paul’s Service, thunderously accompanied by organist Benjamin Morris and thrillingly sung by this great choir. — The Observer, 8th April 2018 More…