Hi Res Download, Sullivan, A (composer)

At the heart of the album is the cycle Huit Chansons de Fleurs, by Ricky Ian Gordon. He’s no slouch when it comes to picturing words in his music – so we have drunken bees teetering along the... — BBC Music Magazine, June 2024, 3 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 4 out of 5 stars (Recording) More…

Like soprano Mary Bevan, tenor Ben Johnson and baritone Ashley Riches, [Whately] brings clear diction and a good range of tone to the material – much of it forgotten today...in Whately’s visionary... — BBC Music Magazine, August 2021, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Sampson’s vocal security throughout the registers, clear diction, and patrician phrasing all testify to a complete artist. And Sampson proves every bit as much at home in the modernist works... — Fanfare, Mar/Apr 2024 More…

their finely balanced, blended voices and precision of tuning mean they sound good in everything from John Tavener’s The Lamb to some 17th-century Italian polyphony by Michelangelo Rossi or... — The Guardian, 19th October 2017, 3 out of 5 stars More…

Johnson's full, lustrous tone and floating higher notes, decidedly unlike today's typical 'English' tenor, suit this repertoire well. With James Baillieu's strong if unobtrusive support, he... — BBC Music Magazine, March 2016, 4 out of 5 stars More…

The disc is full of sensitively balanced, expressive performance, most of them sung unaccompanied…A jazzed-up God rest you merry, gentlemen and a chittering Jingle Bells bring fun into the equation,... — BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2017, 4 out of 5 stars More…

The music is beautiful and the overall sound is caressing and sensual — Opera Now More…

There's a lot of French music in this set: earthy readings of Poulenc’s Gloria and Les biches alongside a host of rarities...Walton’s Bach-inspired ballet The Wise Virgins is fun, and there’s... — The Arts Desk, 22nd July 2017 More…