Choir of St John's College Cambridge

Pious Anthems and Voluntaries aspires, in Finnissy’s words, ‘to be a work of guts and brains’. It embodies both in spades…Nethsingha and his forces do it proud. Indeed one of their greatest... — BBC Music Magazine, October 2020 More…

Nethsingha treats each psalm as a mini tone-poem of vocal affects, each line inflected in distinctive ways to elicit meaning and emotion from the biblical text...There is a danger, of course,... — BBC Music Magazine, November 2022, 4 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 5 out of 5 stars (Recording) More…

The choir's musicianship is superb and its vocal balance perfectly calibrated; the textures vibrant and the sensuous beauty of the John's sound is expertly captured by Signum. New Millennium... — BBC Music Magazine, November 2023, 5 out of 5 stars More…

The choir of St John's Cambridge have an evident affinity for music of this kind (which was written for just such choirs to sing) and present convincing accounts of a wide range of Finzi's sacred... — David Smith, Presto Music, October 2014 More…

It’s sad that Nethsingha’s departure means that the next volume will be the last. I can’t think of a greater or more apt epitaph to the music director’s time at St John’s. — Gramophone Magazine, May 2023 More…

The mean old saying, 'Those who can, do, and those who can't, teach', would have withered in the presence of Stanford; and no doubt one of the reasons why he was such a great teacher is that... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 More…

This latest addition to Naxos's English Church Music series isn't just a first-rate bargain but provides a distinctive alternative to the Finzi Singers in the Chandos Walton Edition, in its... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 More…

Some performances grip you from the outset, and this St John’s College recording of Vaughan Williams’s Mass in G minor is one of them. The Kyrie’s rapt inwardness is built on the outstandingly... — BBC Music Magazine, July 2018, 5 out of 5 stars More…