Out of Darkness: Music from Lent to Trinity

"The programme has been discerningly chosen and the standard of performance is set down at once with an excellent account of Byrd's Cunctis diebus. Here the College Choir achieves a good internal balance, sustains the polyphonic lines intelligently and sings the penitential text with no little feeling. The other Lenten piece, the Purcell, is entrusted to the Combined Choir and comes off well. This is a fine recital, which has been planned discerningly and performed with great skill and commitment. The recording, produced by Chris Hazell and engineered by Mike Hatch, is very good, not least in balancing the singers against the organ in a very satisfactory way." (MusicWeb April 2015)

"The programme strays well off the ecclesiastical beaten track...The darkness-to-light format is familiar enough, but the sequence has been carefully thought through here and embraces sufficient variety of styles and texture - some with organ accompaniment, some without - to sustain the disc's 75 minutes." The Telegraph, 22nd February 2015 ***