‘It's an enormously attractive work, by turns exhilarating, as in the obsessive rhythms of the Presto second movement, and rhapsodic, as in the warmly atmospheric melismatic patterns of the Adagio sixth movement. Roscoe relishes these contrasts in mood with playing that is both exuberant and expressive’ (BBC Music Magazine)» More

‘The result is a collection that in terms of imagination and aural allure is beyond anything I have heard since the halcyon age of the young Benjamin Britten … full of small gems’ (The Oldie)» More

'Contrapunctus play a long game with this often slow-paced, meditative repertoire … director Owen Rees shows his experience here, making a case for a conductor in a climate in which musical democracy is increasingly king' (Gramophone)

‘It may well turn out to be one of the finest choral recordings I’ll hear this year!’ (Gramophone)

‘The account of the Missa brevis is if anything even better, Leighton's elliptical languages parsed with extreme acuity by conductor Stephen Layton. He elicits great subtleties of expression from his young singers, in a work which like many of its abbreviated kind could easily glide in by an instant, leaving not so much trace behind it’ (BBC Music Magazine)» More

‘There is much to admire in this release … plenty to enjoy, particularly the 'Midsummer Night's Dream'-like fantasy and lightness of the Scherzo and the Scherzo à cappricio’ (International Piano)» More

‘Ohlsson need fear no comparisons. He has the technique for this music and sounds entirely in sympathy with it’ (MusicWeb International)» More

‘Ruby Hughes … is a delight, pure lyric-soprano transparency for the often folksy simplicity of young Richard, who even in his early teens was up to the off harmonic trick’ (BBC Music Magazine)» More

'A vibrant sound, never bland' (The Guardian)» More

‘Every note perfectly placed and coloured … with Hough, the music always comes first’ (The Guardian)» More

«Le Credo ou l'Agnus Dei, vaste méditation suspendue, sont de vraies révélations, que prolongent cinq motets, dont un O vos omnes très développé, riche en moments magiques» (Diapason, France)» More

«La maîtrise digitale est superlative, et le jeu éclaire les moindres échanges contrapunctiques, ou fait littéralement jaillir du clavier des thèmes pressés d'en découdre» (Diapason, France)» More