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It might not be as clean as a studio recording, but it’s a cracking selection and rip-roaring fun. — BBC Music Magazine, September 2021, 3 out of 5 stars More…

The bright, jangling soundworld of Judith Weir's All the Ends of the Earth immediately cleanses the aural palate...the BBC Singers bring their customary high standards of versatility and exectuion... — BBC Music Magazine, October 2015, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Darkness and devilry lurk in the shadows...Despax has recorded Bach, Brahms, Chopin, but the works here particularly suit his sensibility. In Maurice Ravel’s haunting masterpiece Gaspard de... — The Guardian, 1st July 2023 More…

‘Continuum’ may gravitate too closely to the mainstream for some readers’ tastes but one is constantly reminded in Cooper’s expressively honed music of its power to comfort and inspire in difficult... — Gramophone Magazine, May 2022 More…

The Bach transcriptions featured in Spira, Spera (Breathe, Hope) can help us find stillness better than any mindfulness tech…Like fellow Bach fan Angela Hewitt, Despax favours a Fazioli piano,... — BBC Music Magazine, May 2021, 5 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 4 out of 5 stars (Recording) More…

Highlights include a numinous take on MacMillan’s O Radiant Dawn, Ailsa McTernan’s soaring solo in Patricia Van Ness’s ‘Archangelus’ and a performance of Kerensa Briggs’s A Tender Shoot, which... — BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2022, 4 out of 5 stars More…

What is certain is that these pieces are inventive and full of vitality. In short, they are unashamedly intended to please the senses and, in the hands of stylistically informed players they... — BBC Music Magazine, January 2022, 5 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 4 out of 5 stars (Recording) More…