The choir pay immaculate attention to Muhly's settings, his harmonies and his dissonance, by turns uplifting, calm, evocative, direct. The effect is very much of a live thing, ineffably human.

The resonant intimacy of Magdalen’s acoustic – glowing but clear – is exploited in textures that tend to the muted and mystical... Techniques that often nod to Magdalen’s – and England’s – choral heritage... impeccably and thoughtfully constructed

Muhly is a master choral miniaturist who combines condensed wit and beauty with a very practical eye on the clock, ensuring that his music is actually suitable for real-life church use...The word I keep mentally returning to is ‘fresh’, which describes both his compositional approach and the performance.