Reviews

'The Austrian baritone’s recording with the great pianist Martineau is a wonderful addition to the Dichterliebe library.'

'The players of Phantasm play this music with real conviction.'

'Toby Young’s ... vibrant anthem uses “pop-inflected rhythm and harmony”. Robert Quinney and the New College Choir give an outstanding performance.'

'... never has it leapt so vividly off the page and been so thrillingly audible as in these new recordings ... The War in Heaven word-painting of Factum est silentium, with St Michael and his angels squaring off against the Devil and his followers, has never sounded so cinematic.'

'Music that makes you happy, a nice diversity of known and lesser known pieces.’

'D’Angelo is glorious, and Mary Bevan is equally good as the flirt Atalanta ... A very strong Handel opera recording.'

Recommended: 'Crowe is supremely accomplished as a Handel stylist and sings with huge assurance ... D’Angelo’s fast vibrato and trenchant, burnished lower register are also a delight.'

'The ensemble has a very good approach to the musical language of Carl Philipp Stamitz, giving his music the necessary elegance, grace and lightness.'

'The realisation by the 33-voice Choir of New College Oxford under the direction of Robert Quinney is, as expected, very good ... a fine example of the unbroken continuity of English choral tradition.'