Browse: Vaughan Williams - The Sky above the Roof

This selection of English songs is his debut recording as a soloist, and is worth the wait. Butterworth’s ‘Is my team ploughing? ’ immediately showcases Alexander’s mature interpretive temperament.... — BBC Music Magazine, February 2024, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Newby, who turns 30 this year, has the kind of powerful natural presence that also belongs to Bryn Terfel, and the timbre of his voice has come to resemble Terfel’s in its plummy warmth and its... — Fanfare, Sep/Oct 2023 More…

Roderick Williams… is entrusted with all but five of these 20 songs - and a sterling job he does, too, with intelligent word-pointing and the voice sonorous, firmly focused and evenly controlled.... — Gramophone Magazine, September 2008 More…

His sound is certainly mellifluous, his phrasing poised yet fluent, but the overall interpretation is uneven…Gilchrist deliver ‘Let Beauty Awake’ very beautifully, and the other more lyrical... — BBC Music Magazine, March 2018, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Holmertz brings a rustic folk-sensibility to her devliery, which works best when echoed in the intricate ornaments and husky vibrato of Hoxbro's whistle. — Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2013 More…