‘The Choir of Trinity College Cambridge enjoys the urgent heartbeat of this music … Missa Rigensis contains many wonders, including a buoyant Gloria which vanishes magically into the long acoustic perspectives of the Lady Chapel, Ely Cathedral, where this disc was most sensitively produced and engineered  … Stephen Layton conducts this music with all the rigour, colour and craft characteristic of his work’ (BBC Music Magazine)

‘A fascinating collection of choral works … centring on a Mass setting by Latvian Uģis Prauliņš … probably the single most impressive moment in the work is the end of the Credo, whose increasing waves of spoken affirmation of faith are haloed by bell-like choral roulades … Einfelde's music is altogether more introverted, darker than that of Prauliņš but beautifully crafted and jewel-like … [Angelis suis Dominis and Pater noster by Miškinis] are works of absolutely luminous beauty’ (Gramophone)

‘Superb’ (Amazon.co.uk)

‘A towering classic, as important as a landmark in the rediscovery of British music as it is a monument to the technique of orchestral recording. Music, performance, recorded sound and notes are all superb’ (International Record Review)

«Ce disque superbe ravira les mélomanes romantiques curieux» (Répertoire, France)

‘Magnificently recorded and performed. When audiences are crying out for 'melodious music' how can such music as this have been ignored for so long?’ (Gramophone)

‘The best Bantock record I have ever heard’ (CDReview)

‘The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra performs magnificently from beginning to end, coupling elegance, eloquence, passion, and poser with Hyperion's fastidious sound in a way that compels admiration from the listener for conductor, ensemble and composer alike. Handley's is the definitive version of the Hebridean Symphony, outstripping that available on Naxos in every regard, and with the other works on this disc to further commend it, this release sails effortlessly into port as the newest inductee into Fanfare's Classical Hall of Fame’ (Fanfare, USA)

«Le label Hyperion a la bonne idée de regrouper en un coffret ses enregistrements consacrés à une bonne partie de l’œuvre symphonique du compositeur anglais Granville Bantock. Grand ami du fantasque compositeur Havergal Brian, Bantock vit sa gloire restaurée grâce à cette série d’enregistrements couverts de prix et de récompenses à leur sortie en disques séparés» (ResMusica.com, France)

«E'n revanche, tous les amoureux de la démesure, des grands climax et des tonalités superposées devraient trouver un bonheur immédiat à l’écoute de ce coffret. Une référence» (Classiqueinfo-disque.com)

‘What an achievement! Twenty-one late-romantic orchestral works in one box at mid-price or better. Bantock's lavish romanticism is superbly served by both artists and recording team. Discovery after discovery’ (MusicWeb International)

‘Bantock's prodigious output as a composer … rested in the long grass for decades until Vernon Handley's Hyperion recordings revealed the many qualities of Bantock's orchestral music. At its best, in works such as A Hebridean Symphony and The Cyprian Goddess, there's a richness of sound that recalls the tone poems of Strauss blended with shades of Wagner’ (Classic FM Magazine)