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All this can be very challenging to sing, and Cappella Nova not only manage to get the notes, but surmount them with lyrical grace and very little hint of strain. Conductor Alan Tavener (a distant... — BBC Music Magazine, February 2016, 4 out of 5 stars More…

The fresh, unforced quality of these young singers brings a pleasant friction to grave-facing works like Gibbons's What is our life? and Howells's Even such is time, and comes into its own in... — Gramophone Magazine, November 2015 More…

The freshness of attack you get with younger voices is put to incisive use by conductor Ralph Allwood...Some of the emotional deepening which comes with vocal maturity is occasionally missing,... — BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2012, 4 out of 5 stars More…

…the singing is strong and enthusiastic, even in the most taxing writing, and the sound is bright and clearly focused… — BBC Music Magazine, December 2008, 4 out of 5 stars More…

What’s not to love? It’s a typically varied programme which reaches across the decades, performed with pitch-perfect vivacity and no small amount of joy. Very glad tidings. — BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2021, 4 out of 5 stars More…