‘Listen to what Bott and Norris make of the Gershwin standard A Foggy Day and you'll believe that the age of miracles hasn't passed!’ (International Record Review)

‘Catherine Bott's versatile, light soprano is wonderfully entertaining in this wide-ranging London related album’ (The Evening Standard)

‘Best of all is the Joyce Grenfell number, Joyful Noise, putting her own delicious slant on a number one would have thought no one but Joyce Grenfell could bring off’ (The Guardian)

‘Bott can transform herself from robust campanologist in Walton's Rhyme to high camp in Kit and the Widow's irresistible Wimbledon Idyll; from folk singer for Ewan MacColl's Sweet Thames to waif-like Victorian music-hall songstress in While London's fast asleep … the gently circumspect soft-focus of this recital will doubtless be, for many listeners, all part of that illusory charm of London Town’ (BBC Music Magazine)

‘Catherine Bott, totally unexpected in lighter twentieth century repertoire, divulges new facets of her talents … Noel Coward's London Pride closes the album on a subdued but heroic note, leaving us in admiration of singer and pianist in one of this year's most enjoyable discs to have come my way’ (Fanfare, USA)

‘Sumptuous performances all’ (The Sunday Times)

'Excellently transferred from 78s dating from 1939-59, this selection ranges from Liszt’s early exuberance to the grim-faced austerity of his final years, and throughout you will hear playing of a peerless scintillation, patrician command and a poetic engagement known to few pianists' (Gramophone)

‘Vocal effects including susurration are used by the 40-year-old Polish composer, but it is the emotionality permeating every syllable of his religious settings that is the most impressive. The singers' performance is immaculate’ (Classical Music)

‘A superlative issue in every way. This inspired music by the contemporary Polish composer employs a convincing language of 'renewed tonality' in its impassioned response to the traditional liturgical texts … these young Cambridge singers bring a technical mastery and total commitment to this vibrant music’ (Choir & Organ)

‘Layton is arguably the finest choral director working today in the UK … Layton's choral scholars sing this challenging music, with its dazzling polytonal clusters, complex chords, and non-traditional progressions with absolute purity of tone, perfection of intonation, and depth of feeling … we live in a renaissance of sacred choral music … it is clear that Polish composer Paweł Łukaszewski belongs to this company of titans … I found myself amazed at each subtle harmonic surprise, at each stunningly apt underlining of a phrase … do not hesitate’ (Fanfare, USA)

‘With performances as sonorous and acutely paced as these, they come across with a winning fervour. Layton's advocacy is certainly vindicated’ (The Daily Telegraph)

‘Stephen Layton conjures magical and sophisticated performances from the Choir of Trinity College, Cambridge, and I imagine that the composer must be in seventh heaven’ (International Record Review)