Walton: Choral Music: Missa Brevis AEC Coronation Te Deum AEC Magnificat / etc

"Walton's choral sensibilities were fixed in childhood, as a boy treble at Christ Church, Oxford, where the sound is relatively dry and favours crisp, astringent writing of a kind where you expect to hear the words. You hear everything in these accounts of Walton's Chichester Service, including the mischief that stalks the score. They come with a sleek performance of the composer's wedding anthem Set me as a seal upon thine heart" Gramophone

"The pieces stretch over the widest span of Walton's career, from the setting of Phineas Fletcher in A Litany, the amazing inspiration of a 14 year-old but, anticipating the mature Walton, to Antiphon, one of his last works, a stirring setting of George Herbert's hymn. Let All the World in Every Corner Sing." Penguin Guide key Recording