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A sequence of modern music to ancient texts – linked by austere insertions of Sarum plainchant – that surveys the renaissance of interest in the art-carol among most of the leading British composers of the first half of this century (Howells, Walton, Warlock, Leighton are all represented). Stephen Layton's choir, Polyphony, is superb: one of the best mixed-voice professional ensembles in the...
The choir conveys Warlock’s genius quite irresistibly. These are superlative performances, beautifully recorded. A first-rate production.
What treasures are here … The two discs provide an unmissable opportunity to explore a composer who is underrated and overlooked perhaps because he was too modest about himself. There are melodies here which Massenet, Debussy, Fauré and Ravel would have been proud to call their own. No one can fail to have their musical horizon broadened by these discs, which will assuredly come high among my...
Graham Johnson choisir ses chanteurs qui possèdent une musicalité irréprochable et un français non seulement intelligible mais évocateur - et de les accompanger avec tant de poésie.
To wonderful songs … [the artists] bring delicacy, grace, an emotion the more poignant for being understated … Not to be missed.