Gramophone Awards, 1991

The recording is clear and atmospheric, and the playing has power, grandeur, character, intellectual clarity and unforced intensity — Gramophone MagazineMore…

A disc that revealed Gardiner's Beethoven credentials but which also showed off his magnificent Monterverdi Choir as it edged into the 19th century. Another Record of the Year. — Gramophone Magazine, October 2008More…

The strong emotions that soloist and conductor doubtless felt within six months of the composer's death ensure that there is more than enough raw and authentic feeling to counter any purely... — Gramophone Magazine, May 2010More…

Here's a performance that blends this conductor's love of scholarship with an unerring sense of theatre. The English Baroque Soloists are magnificent in a work that puts the chorus only one... — BBC Music Magazine, August 2007More…

It's difficult to conceive of a masterpiece in any other form than it is. The impression the listener receives from Sibelius's Fifth Symphony – or The Rite ofSpring or La mer – must convey what... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010More…

In this recording of Missa Assumpta est Maria Peter Phillips has included the motet on which this work is based, together with another parody mass, the Sicut lilium with its corresponding motet.... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010More…