Delphian

Bonaventure is utterly compelling and can be heartily recommended. — BBC Music Magazine, Proms 2008, 5 out of 5 stars More…

All the performances seem admirable in commitment and character, with David Wilson-Johnson in particularly fine voice in the symphony. — Gramophone Magazine, July 2008 More…

The quality of the repertoire is matched by the quality of the playing. This is a group with a bright future. — MusicWeb International, August 2008 More…

Simon Smith proves an admirable guide to this often engrossing music; his playing enhanced by the close but never airless sound. — Gramophone Magazine, November 2008 More…

Kitchen leaves no stone unturned in his search for colour, and reveals how close this type of instrument is to its cousin, the theatre organ. The Walton Popular Song and Hollins Triumphal March... — BBC Music Magazine, November 2004, 4 out of 5 stars More…

There’s no better introduction to the productive tensions that have fuelled Sir Peter Maxwell Davies’s career as a composer…this new recording – performed with a high degree of competence by... — Gramophone Magazine More…

This outstanding album brims with atmosphere and imagination…While Osborne’s modernist scores are uncompromising in their technical rigour, his music is nonetheless intensely human, radiating... — BBC Music Magazine, May 2019, 4 out of 5 stars More…

How does one bring freshness to 'Praise to the Lord' or 'For lo I raise up'? The answer would seem to be group experience, for Benjamin Nicholas's soloists all come from the ranks of the choir... — International Record Review, July/August 2011 More…

At the heart of this Advent service is a set of seven antiphons specially commissioned from seven composers for Merton College chapel. They work splendidly as a sequence...Peter Phillips and... — BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2012, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Delicately poised playing — BBC Music Magazine More…