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What’s not to love? It’s a typically varied programme which reaches across the decades, performed with pitch-perfect vivacity and no small amount of joy. Very glad tidings. — BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2021, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Revisiting this exhilarating performance, it is little wonder that Haydn exclaimed he ‘had no idea we had such an opera in the English language’. — BBC Music Magazine, September 2021, 4 out of 5 stars More…

The Jesus singers give a glowing account in this rewarding programme. Supple, sensitive direction by Mark Williams. — BBC Music Magazine, February 2014, 4 out of 5 stars More…

he shows himself a young aristocrat of the keyboard intent on purely musical ends. The disc is well recorded and lavishly presented. — Gramophone Magazine, October 2015 More…

Salonen surely does nearly everything that most of us require from a cutting-edge interpreter with plenty to say. His Boulezian ear for balance keeps all the textures phantasmagorically clear...[His]... — BBC Music Magazine, August 2010, 4 out of 5 stars More…

The disc’s title work, composed by Toby Young, is a playful reimagining of the Baroque suite…Young’s score conjures gorgeous sonorities, particularly in the string writing, and is matched by... — BBC Music Magazine, January 2018, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Harpsichordist Jane Chapman has taken liberties with the original source, and for the most part they are welcome…she has included extracts from another source [and] she is free with repetitions... — Gramophone Magazine, August 2015 More…

The combination of Ralph Allwood and the Rodolfus Choir usually means quality. It does again here in this excellently sung recital of Elgar choral pieces. It's hard, in fact, to imagine 'Go,... — BBC Music Magazine, May 2013, 4 out of 5 stars More…