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The prevalent mood [in the Poulenc] is one of celebration which St John’s Choir captures admirably; there is also a lively engagement with the contrasts which make the Gloria so appealing…The... — BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2017, 3 out of 5 starsMore…

an attractive lightness of touch out of which Chopin’s playful Preludes flow with ease and grace in this intimate recording — BBC Music Magazine, July 2017, 4 out of 5 starsMore…

Samuel Coles neatly personifies the fastidious Gilbert Jesperson, maintaining elegance and integrity…Mark van de Wiel is equally convincing as the choleric Aage Oxenvad, responding angrily to... — BBC Music Magazine, June 2017, 4 out of 5 starsMore…

There are treasures [here] not least the rapt performances of Cornelius’s The Three Kings, where Peter Lidbetter is an eloquent soloist, and a delicately inflected, touching account of Elizabeth... — BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2016, 4 out of 5 starsMore…

The pieces were all written for soprano, but they suit young Rykkvin’s pure tone and mature musicianship to perfection. A month after the recording, his voice broke and that ethereal sound was... — The Guardian, 10th March 2018More…

Ian Page and his crack team – singers and players – are clearly having a lot of fun, which comes across in this excellent recording. It’s a treat to experience these faint anticipations of greatness... — Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2018More…

Rees sculpts the musical lines in low and high relief; delicately etched passages – exquisitely sung by the solo voices of Contrapunctus – give way to the sonorous, often seraphic, sound of... — BBC Music Magazine, May 2019, 4 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 5 out of 5 stars (Recording)More…