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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…

The Prince Regent’s Band score brownie points by adhering to Ewald’s original scoring, in this case a pair of cornets, althorn, baritone and tuba, instead of the standard line-up of two trumpets,... — The Arts Desk, 25th November 2017 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…

This is in equal parts brilliant and a bit bonkers. Bolcom’s Black Host is not for the faint-hearted. — BBC Music Magazine, December 2021, 3 out of 5 stars More…

A fascinating anthology tracing the development of a distinctive voice in American choral music. Half the items are first recordings, and the performances are consistently outstanding. — BBC Music Magazine, June 2014, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Written with practicality in mind, Ayres’s anthems are all about generous simplicity: big, juicy unison lines, warm three- or four-part homophony and affirmative, tonal-with-a-scrunch harmonies.... — Gramophone Magazine, February 2021 More…

La Maîtrise de Toulouse is a choir of children and young adults, who offer fresh voices and sing Latin texts with French vowels – as is entirely appropriate, of course, for this repertoire...the... — BBC Music Magazine, April 2023, 4 out of 5 stars More…

These young voices bring a delightful freshness to this demanding repertoire. — Choir & Organ, March 2018, 5 out of 5 stars More…

the disc feels as if it has been crafted with infinite care and love, and for that reason alone it is a joy to listen to...they sing with all the confident, sustained tone of an ensemble steeped... — Gramophone Magazine, September 2014 More…

this mixed boy-girl French choir makes a vigorous, refreshing sound on its debut CD. The voices are full of enthusiastic stresses in the Britten, digging out his staccato Benedictus with robotic... — Classic FM Magazine, April 2011, 4 out of 5 stars More…

[Robinson's] lockdown labours have resulted in an ideal mix of the new, the daring, the entertaining and a classic masterpiece...A feast of an album, beautifully produced and with first-rate... — Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2022 More…

The unaccompanied pieces fare particularly well, especially the disc’s title-track...In comparison to the Westminster Abbey Choir’s disc of music by Bairstow, Harris and Stanford, the Tewkesbury... — Gramophone Magazine, July 2020 More…

David Hill’s gorgeously coherent programme from Peterborough showcases some of the best of the genre by a septet of English-born composers...Needless to say that [his] enthusiasm for this generous... — Gramophone Magazine, November 2020 More…

A lovely idea, and there are some gems here, but I’m not sure that most of these miniatures are ‘keepers’. — BBC Music Magazine, January 2019, 2 out of 5 stars More…

Trotter’s peerless playing has a propulsive energy, which, in the music’s grand fanfares, reed solos, echo passages and virtuoso passage-work, reveals why the Georgian organ and its players wowed... — Choir & Organ, September 2019, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Rounded, velvet tones; impeccably secure intonation; sweetly subtle dynamics: I felt I was taking a sumptuous bath in nothing but golden syrup…everything here is nimble and bright, and well worth... — BBC Music Magazine, April 2017, 4 out of 5 stars More…

...the boy sopranos soar effortlessly above the tenor and bass lines, and this made the experience rather special.Of the choral pieces, I found Gray’s What are these that glow bright and full... — MusicWeb International, 22nd June 2004 More…

A nice introduction to the music of Thomas Weelkes, as Chichester Cathedral Choir dutifully marks the 400th anniversary of the death of its most famous employee with lively, if not always immaculately... — BBC Music Magazine, November 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…

Although many of [the tracks] will, I suspect, be unfamiliar territory, this comprehensive survey o some of the best American organ music should do much to correct any ignorance…This attractive... — Gramophone Magazine, September 2018 More…