"Three excellent singers... The music itself combines an easygoing unpretentiousness with quiet and searching intelligence. There is real intensity as Lucinda Broadbridge strikingly conveys in the fourth of the Casos Sonnets. And the best of the Greek settings, such as Palamas’s Anatolia, are bewitching." 

Malcolm Hayes
 

"The three singers, admirable in their clarity of diction and delivery, are all well suited to this repertoire and they are accompanied by a chamber orchestra, a solo soprano saxophone contributing some evocative moments. Divine Art’s relatively small catalogue has afforded several items of unusual interest, many of them British. This is certainly one of them and I am happy to give it a warm recommendation."   *****

Phil Scowcroft
 

"...a wonderful excursion - beautifully conducted, sung, and played - into forthrightly tonal music and poetry that are disarmingly direct and simplistic ... Each day I go down to my word processor, hell-bent on achieving my self-imposed quota, and each day I instead cue up this CD to hear just a few tracks, and find myself once again helplessly sitting there, mesmerised, until it’s over". 

William Zagorski
 

"Donald Swann was on this evidence clearly a most accomplished and sensitive composer... the singers seem excellent throughout and there is nothing of the suffocating operatic ambience... it was an inspired decision to include Swann’s home-spun tape recording which is never less than poetic... this is a very fine disc and well worth seeking out" 

Rob Barnett