Stephen Layton MBE

BBC Music Magazine, 2005CD Review

MacMillan: Seven Last Words from the Cross

This splendid new performance from Polyphony also conveys dignity, and a sense (hard to explain) that the suffering is, in some mysterious way, redemptive. Easier to quantify, the singing is also remarkably secure technically, the ensemble near perfect. Beautiful, powerful playing too from the Britten Sinfonia'

Recording: MacMillan - Seven Last Words from the Cross