‘The revelation for me was Stanford’s powerful response to the unfolding carnage of the Great War, his 1915 anthem For lo, I raise up. Beneath the superficial swagger lies one of his most inspired wor ...
‘What we have here is, unashamedly, music of a particular age, performed in one of the noblest of sacred spaces of England by one of its finest choirs. This disc could be no better introduction to the ...
‘This is a disc of mainstream, conservative Anglican music, yet also of works which have stayed in the repertory as they are cracking good ones … here too are consistently cracking good performan ...