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[Williams] has a mellow, refined tone, distinctively poetic delivery, and is keenly sensitive to the words. And with Allan’s lively support, he can unleash sufficient vigour in the emotional... — BBC Music Magazine, February 2018, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Thwaites/Baillie absorb Fanny Davies’s wonderful image of Brahms lingering ‘not on a note, but on a whole idea, as if unable to tear himself away from its beauty’ — BBC Music Magazine, November 2016, 3 out of 5 stars More…

The songs themselves are really good ones and the performances are top class. Carole Farley is a fine advocate for Grieg and the orchestrations, expertly realised by two London orchestras under... — MusicWeb International, January 2021 More…

Their qualities are strikingly consistent, characteristically tonal and lyrical, deeply felt, but with a deceptive lightness of texture that underplays the deftness of the part-writing. Altogether... — BBC Music Magazine, October 2018, 4 out of 5 stars/3 out of 5 stars More…

This winter programme includes music by John Tavener, Oliver Tarney and US composer Don Macdonald, whose Fusion enterprisingly dispenses with words altogether, instead using arrangements of... — Choir & Organ, March 2019, 4 out of 5 stars More…