‘Performance after performance of surpassing brilliance and character’ (Gramophone)

‘His virtuosity is most floridly displayed on the delicate trills and runs in Adolf Schulz-Evler’s gloss on Strauss’s By the Beautiful Blue Danube … the assured modesty of his approach allows the music’s subtler charms to sing through’ (The Independent)

‘This recording will transport you back to rural England at the turn of the 17th century … an entertaining selection of vocal solo and quartet music’ (Gramophone)

‘Enthusiastically recommended’ (Fanfare, USA)

‘Music of the very highest quality … if you only have one lute-song disc in your collection it should be this one’ (Early Music Review)

‘This is one of those times where the historical context around a particular program is just right; where what seems like the exact organ is heard in the exactly appropriate repertoire, played by an organist with the exact equipment—technical, artistic and intellectual. Over the years we have come to expect outstanding CDs from Hyperion, and this is certainly such a recording’ (The American Organist)

‘A delight … this disc will give joy year-round’ (Fanfare, USA)

‘Christopher Herrick and the Hyperion team have come up trumps with a gem of an organ … glorious. This is marvellous playing, full of energy and irrepressible jeu d'esprit’ (BBC Music Magazine)

‘Something all organ lovers will want to have. Smashing!’ (Gramophone)

‘A magnificent organ and music that will gladden the heart’ (Early Music Review)

‘Hagai Shaham pulls off that great virtuoso trick of making the music sound complex, but also making clear that he has every note under his fingers and that he is not sweating it. To non-violinist listeners, the greatest attraction of this music is its lyricism, and Shaham always brings this to the fore, especially in the exquisitely crafted middle movements … excellent playing from the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, who again demonstrate that they are a force to be reckoned with’ (MusicWeb International)

‘Hagai Shaham delivers a fastidious and vivacious sympathy to the flow of figures, a real acolyte of an otherwise marginal repertory’ (American Record Guide)