Stephen Layton
CAM Magazine
Michaelmas Term 2007
Interview with Richard Wigmore

Stephen Layton
Master and Commander
The Times
November 16 2007
Interview with Richard Morrison

Stephen Layton
The polyphonic spree
The Guardian
March 31 2006
A Grammy nomination and a bestselling CD to his name, Stephen Layton tells Nicholas Wroe why his real passion is our own great choral tradition
March 2006

Stephen Layton
talking to Shirley Ratcliffe
Organist’s Review
February 2005



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Stephen Layton
Faber Choral Music New
Autumn, 2004

Morten Lauridsen and Stephen Layton

Stephen Layton and Polyphony
The Organ
August, 2004

The editor meets up with Stephen Layton

Tavener’s All Night Vigil
Classical Music Nina Large
July, 2003
Stephen Layton/Choir of the Temple Church/Holst Singers

Night shift
Nina Large looks at the logistics of staging John Tavener’s All Night Vigil and outlines its significance for the Temple Church

Musical marathon'til the break of dawn
Friday, July 23, 2004
BY Bradley Bambarger
Star-Ledger Staff
http://www.nj.com/entertainment

New York – Endurance contest or ecstatic experience? However you see Sir John Tavener's seven-hour "The Veil of the Temple," it is an admirably ambitious centerpiece for the Lincoln Center Festival.

Tavener's midsummer vigil

The Times Richard Morrison
23rd October 2002

Tavener's midsummer vigil to transcend the law
IN THE most unlikely artistic partnership of the year, the intensely religious composer Sir John Tavener has been commissioned by some ofLondon’s sharpest lawyers to write an enormous midsummer night’s “vigil” — replete with tinkling bells and clouds of incense — for performance in the Inns of Court.

St John Passion, ENO

Independent Roderic Dunnett
5th April 2000

Jesus Christ, opera star
Concerts of Bach's St John Passion are familiar Eastertide events. Now the crucifixion is being staged at English National Opera. Can the director Deborah Warner retain its sacred heart?  Each Good Friday for the past five years (and the same this Easter – the 250th anniversary of JS Bach's death) Stephen Layton has conducted Bach's St John Passion at St John's, Smith Square in London, with a top-notch Evangelist, such as Ian Bostridge or Mark Padmore.


Choir & Organ

Peter Beaven
Jan/Feb 1999

Musical Magic
It's a rare opportunity to write about a new organist at The Temple Church. Stephen Layton is but only the fourth this century and one relishes not just the opportunity to discuss his work there, but his interests and ambitions inside and outside the confines of the mysterious world that is the Temple. It is, for those who don't know, an area of central London where, for centuries, the law and lawyers have plied their worldly trade. The atmosphere of an Oxbridge College abounds - history, traditions, pecking orders - the whole gamut. Quaintly known as Inns of Court, there are in fact three of these ghettos of jurisprudence in London, and as far as music is concerned, Temple Church is the pinnacle.