‘Peter Phillips has been leading his ensemble for well over 30 years and his passion for the music is tireless. The Scholars' typically silky, seraphic sound is here given a more robust and visceral edge, thanks to boyish-toned sopranos (apt for music originally performed by an all-male ensemble), stout lower voices and muscular rhythms. Using just nine singers gives an intimacy to these readings and ensures clear-cut words and sharply delineated vocal lines. The vocal balance is sensitively judged, and Gimell's recording—in the Chapel of Merton College, Oxford—is lush without being overly splashy’ (BBC Music Magazine)» More

‘Isserlis approaches both main works expansively, getting his 1726 'Marquis de Corberon' Stradivarius to sing, project and fade with beauty, form and expression foremost. More than once one is struck by how paragraphs and episodes breathe, surge and cadence, rests and silences given potent tension; this is finely articulate cultured playing—ruminant poetry and reflective musicality, aristocratically suspended climaxes, carrying the argument free of ego or 'produced' theatre’ (Classical Source)» More

‘The quality of the singing and playing, and Hill’s pacing and control of the work in this sonorous and carefully recorded account, is of a very high order … any chance to hear Brahms’s great work sung by a superb choir, which this Yale group unquestionably is, cannot be sniffed at … the music-making is splendid and I am certain this is a disc to which I will return’ (MusicWeb International)» More

‘Once again we are indebted to Howard Shelley for his untiring efforts to unearth little-known composer/pianists from the footnotes of history … no praise can be high enough for Shelley’s technical command and beautiful tone … Dussek was not an also-ran—and the real value of this splendid release is that it amply demonstrates that’ (MusicWeb International)» More

«Kolesnikov se situerait quelque part au confluent de l’esprit de finesse de Christian Zacharias et de l’évidence qu’impose l’art de Stephen Kovacevich. Même un esprit critique aiguisé en arrive à rendre les armes en entendant des sons arriver ainsi de nulle part» (Le Devoir)» More

‘There’s much compelling music making afoot, not to mention Kolesnikov’s imaginative program building’ (Classics Today)» More

‘I’ve never heard anything but first-rate performances from the Brabant Ensemble, and this is no exception. And it’s hard to underestimate the value of a group such as this as an advocate for a virtually unknown but very worthy composer. Hopefully it means that many listeners will take the chance to discover Févin, whose reputation is further honored by Hyperion’s excellent production and Stephen Rice’s informative notes’ (Classics Today)» More

‘Their performances here are as secure and eloquent as one would expect … this is a convenient way of exploring votive antiphons on one disc. Texts and translations are included, as are details of the singers for each work and helpful notes on the music and the whole production is exemplary’ (MusicWeb International)» More

‘A fine example of a concept album that works’ (BBC Record Review)

‘A wonderful evocation of Mass being celebrated by St Maximinus, painted in Hildegard's wonderfully perfumed language’ (BBC Record Review)

‘A wonderful evocation of Mass being celebrated by St Maximinus, painted in Hildegard's wonderfully perfumed language’ (BBC Record Review)

‘[Upheld by stillness is] a fine example of the way Park is able to engage with earlier musical forms and choral tradition, while finding a sound that's utterly modern. Superbly drilled performances and an effortlessly spacious and detailed recording’ (BBC Record Review)