It's good to have so many of Warlock's choral settings on one disc, sensitively performed by this technically confident group of singers.

there's a freshness to the choir's tone that lends itself to the folk-simplicity of Warlock's texts and settings...These young voices blend and tune beautifully together but lack the focus and rhetorical muscularity that so much of this music needs to brace its melodic sweetness.

Those redoubtable Naxos talent-scouts have done it again; here is a fine young choir appearing for the first time on a commercial disc...Their quality is easily perceived from the number of soloists they are able to provide for this recording, all of whom sing with great accomplishment - with special mention for Lottie Bowden in Balulalow, and tenor Thomas Drew in Corpus Christi.

The youthful Carice Singers perform these part songs with vigorous attention to detail and, a few tiny slips of intonation aside, beautifully blended tone. Hugo Popplewell is the wistful soloist in Ireland’s Sea Fever. This is music of heat haze, hey-nonny wistfulness: ideal high-summer listening.