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Light-footed, lyrical, Roth's settings range from Thomas Wyatt to Vikram Seth. They suit Szymanski's elegant guitar and Padmore's refined tenor, but devitalise folksongs like Scarborough Fair. — BBC Music Magazine, August 2013, 3 out of 5 stars More…

For all that one is used to Hakim’s coruscating brilliance, the sheer technical skill and white-hot intensity of the Hakim imagination in blending these dirge-like themes into music left this... — Choir & Organ, December 2008 More…

Connolly shows her characteristic care for words and line…Tenebrae and Aurora cherish their curving lines in the composer’s purest pastoral vein, and Simon Callow is a clear and sympathetic... — BBC Music Magazine, Christmas Issue 2018, 4 out of 5 stars More…

The atmosphere is intimate and confiding; the music presented simply with minimal ornament. Occasionally the long lines of the slower songs can bring a certain smoothing-out of the text, but... — BBC Music Magazine, Christmas Issue 2018, 4 out of 5 stars (Performance)/5 out of 5 stars (Sound) More…

I was really captivated like that nightingale; each track seems to be more lovely than the next, and I have to say that this has a lot to do with the artists here; [Elena Xanthoudakis] a real... — Record Review, 14th May 2016 More…

All attractive and enjoyable – the concluding Gloria especially so. — MusicWeb International, November 2017 More…

Williams is entirely on terms with the virtuoso requirements of the Tarantella from Venezia e Napoli...The intricate part-writing of Liszt's transcription from Wagner's Tristan und Isolde, too,... — BBC Music Magazine, January 2013, 4 out of 5 stars More…

…the wonderful Roderick Williams… animates and energises everything he does. He sings with relish, makes the most of the words… and infectiously communicates a pleasure that it can’t always... — BBC Music Magazine, January 2009, 4 out of 5 stars More…

The Albion Quartet are both meticulous and persuasive in the somewhat overlong first movement [of No. 5]; they also excel in the soulful slow movement, the gem of the work…Overall this is a... — BBC Music Magazine, August 2019, 3 out of 5 stars More…