Signum

An inspired work on a grand scale that gradually reveals its greatness — Gramophone Magazine, December 2005 More…

Every one of the pieces on this disc is worth the attention of any serious music-lover who is interested in developments in modern music outside of the avant-garde and the relevance of such... — International Record Review, April 2011 More…

Miles's oaken depth of tone and amplitude of line are impressive, and ultimately moving...This is not, perhaps, a disc to play straight through. But it's a nobly sung recital, confirming that... — Gramophone Magazine, May 2014 More…

The freshness of attack you get with younger voices is put to incisive use by conductor Ralph Allwood...Some of the emotional deepening which comes with vocal maturity is occasionally missing,... — BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2012, 4 out of 5 stars More…

[Sophie Bevan] sings with a full feminine tone, enchanting in the slow movements, while her sister Mary sings arias from Handel's 1709 Venetian opera, Agrippina…the surprise is Benjamin Bevan,... — BBC Music Magazine, November 2015 More…

Martineau's apparently limitless wisdom about the musicians, the music, and indeed the piano continues at full stretch. The uneasy postlude to 'Voyage', frmo Calligrammes, makes for one of his... — BBC Music Magazine, February 2012, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Here's a stunning display of unaccompanied part-singing by six consummate vocal artists. Sullivan's 'The Long Day Closes', beautifully shaped and shorn of sentimental Victorian accretions,... — BBC Music Magazine, April 2009, 5 out of 5 stars More…