'A well-balanced, beautifully-presented programme' (The Scotsman)» More

'The music, conducted here by Michael Rafferty, is energetic, deftly coloured and carefully balanced, allowing the excellent voices, including Alan Opie’s Frieth, to make their due mark' (The Sunday Times)» More

'The skilful MTW ensemble [is] honouring Berkeley's rich orchestral invention' (The Observer)» More

'Landscape and the spiritual elements of journeying inform much of the music of John Metcalf, particularly the hills and valleys of his native Wales, both literally and when reinterpreted by painters. Paths of Song is a continuous piece for string quartet in five sections, each taken at a walking pace. As with Mapping Wales and Septet, also recorded here, the music is lyrical, melodic, good-natured and benign. That might suggest it's all charm without challenge, but it would be a mistake to assume that. There is some really fine, accessible writing here' (The Observer)

'This is a magnificent retrospective of Angela Hewitt’s achievement as a pianist in the keyboard works of J.S. Bach. As a project which was initiated a little before MusicWeb International’s classical pages took to the air but which has been covered extensively by numerous reviewers here over the years, the completion and bringing together of this remarkable set of recordings marks something of a milestone for everyone involved with classical music, as well as for Hyperion' (MusicWeb International)

'The result is compelling, and at times extraordinary—Metcalfe’s lyrical, contemplative lines are drawn with infinite care, and the immediacy and tenderness of Barley’s performance makes this music addictive' (The Strad)» More

'This is a magnificent retrospective of Angela Hewitt’s achievement as a pianist in the keyboard works of J.S. Bach. As a project which was initiated a little before MusicWeb International’s classical pages took to the air but which has been covered extensively by numerous reviewers here over the years, the completion and bringing together of this remarkable set of recordings marks something of a milestone for everyone involved with classical music, as well as for Hyperion' (MusicWeb International)

'The music is first-rate … with singing of textural and verbal clarity, suppleness and poignancy' (The Daily Telegraph)» More

'It's tempting for choirs to programme Herbert Howells's Requiem or his Take him earth for cherishing. Conductor Ralph Allwood charts a less obvious but no less satisfying repertoire course for his latest Signum Classics album. I could listen to the young singers of The Rodolfus Choir all day without tiring or losing my appetite for their collective musicianship and accomplished choral artistry. Listen, for instance, to the ringing intonation and blend in the tricky central section of The summer is coming and to the vigour of Antiphon. Allwood's choristers, the talented youth of austere times, provide good cause for future' (Classic FM Magazine)

'The choir's deftness and unobtrusive single-mindedness in this area adds an extra frisson of communication to even as brief a setting as 'God be in my Head'. Put simply, this disc has quality stamped all over it, and it's graced by Paul Andrews's exemplary notes' (BBC Music Magazine)» More

'Poulenc rediscovered the Roman Catholicism of his childhood when a close friend was killed in a road accident in 1936. A pilgrimage to Rocamadour in the Pyrenees led to his composing the Litanies à la Vierge Noire and other choral works. The masterpiece here is the double-choir Figure Humaine, a wartime setting of poems by Paul Eluard that culminates in a great cry of 'Liberté'; but the other pieces, too, are all marvellous. It's hard to imagine them being done better: Tenebrae's tone, balance and intonation are superb. All but one are unaccompanied—the organist in the Litanies should have been credited' (Classic FM)

'Udagawa's mastery of the Russian Romantic school of violin playing is a tour de force. Her distinctly northern European style suits this repertoire perfectly' (Classic FM Magazine)