Choral, Philips, P (composer)

Unsurprisingly, refinement abounds, though sometimes at the expense of ‘bite’. — BBC Music Magazine, March 2019, 4 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 5 out of 5 stars (Recording) More…

The playing by the Rose Consort is refined and blanaced without any of the bass-heavy fuzziness that one sometimes hears from viol groups...The motets are performed with just one of the parts... — BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2014, 4 out of 5 stars More…

The performances are first-rate; one especially notes that the choir’s diction remains intelligible even in a somewhat reverberant acoustic with accompanying instruments. — Fanfare, Mar/Apr 2024 More…

the famous setting of Ascendit Deus by Peter Philips spurts forward like a colt sprung freshly from a stable, the vocal decorations spinning vertiginously round like Monteverdi. It's a bracing... — BBC Music Magazine, April 2015, 4 out of 5 stars More…

The characteristic turns of Guerrero's motet are everywhere recognisable but Ghersem adds extra voices to the scoring of his model. The work shows off Eric van Nevel's ensemble at its best:... — Gramophone Magazine, October 2011 More…

Precise (except where blowsy imprecision is an atmospheric decision) but always characterful, this attractive disc wears its historical knowledge and skill lightly enough to appeal well beyond... — Gramophone Magazine, February 2018 More…

Most impressive is Timothy Noon's own setting of Salve regina. Partly because this music is so well tailored both for this choir and for the sound it makes in the cathedral, the choir seems... — Gramophone Magazine, April 2011 More…