Delphian

The Exons are at their most exciting in exalted mode - the Sanctus from the Missa brevis is thrilling. Ave virgo sanctissima, too, is wonderful. — BBC Music Magazine, October 2008, 3 out of 5 stars More…

The singing is excellent — Choir & Organ More…

startlingly impressive — CD Review More…

It gleams, gives voice to some scrumptiously succulent sounds and inspires Timothy Byram-Wigfield to turn out performances of this wide cross-section of Hollins’s output which are utterly captivating... — Gramophone Magazine More…

…the most impressive aspect of this disc is the beautiful sound Wilde coaxes from his superbly voiced Steinway (recorded by Beth Baxter in the Reith Concert Hall, University of Edinburgh) with... — Gramophone Magazine, July 2009 More…

Triplepipe, aulos, carnyx and Loughnashade horn: the odds are firmly against you ever having heard these dinosaurs of musical instrument history in action. This intriguing CD resurrects their... — BBC Music Magazine, October 2017, 4 out of 5 stars More…

The performers, above all pianist Simon Smith, lavish every possible care on the music. They bring out the occasional moments of poetry, but they can’t hide the rhythmic squareness or the prevailing... — The Telegraph, 29th July 2009, 2 out of 5 stars More…

This is music full of character, and some of that character is complex and contradictory. Cleanly crafted, the songs are mostly easy to perform, though they need ringing passion and a quick... — BBC Music Magazine, June 2012, 3 out of 5 stars More…

the Merton choir's singing is notable for its clarity. The polyphonic lines of Byrd's Diliges Dominum, the antiphonal effects of Harris's classic Faire is the heaven and even the dense textures... — Gramophone Magazine, April 2016 More…