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The Choir of Clare College is a choir of quality that, without doubt, had exceptional tuning at all points, a notable elegance in tackling the pieces, excellent balance between voice parts... and despite the young age of its members, clearly observed the choral tradition that has been on this planet for decades... vigorous, powerful and an extremely well balanced performance.

Codalario on Gijon Festival performance

A tour de force.

Classical Music Magazine

This really is exceptional singing - immaculately balanced and blended, with text always at its heart. Ross and his young singers have given us quite the gift in this series. I can't wait to hear what they do next.

Alexandra Coghlan, Gramophone on 'O lux beata Trinitas'

Choir and band – Clare Baroque – play and sing as though their lives depend on it.

Choir and Organ Magazine on "Reformation 1517-2017"

Taking inspiration from the seasons of the Anglican year – Advent, Passiontide, Pentecost, Easter – Graham Ross and the mixed-voice Choir of Clare College, Cambridge, have put together a thoughtful series of recordings that keep one foot in traditional Oxbridge Renaissance repertoire while also moving that tradition determinedly forwards into the 21st century. Their latest disc – ‘Music for Epiphany’ – is no exception, offering a collision of new and old that coalesces into a seasonal collection that works just as well as a recital as it does a reference recording.

Gramophone Magazine on "Mater Ora Filium"

This is a beautifully programmed and performed disc... Of recordings of the choir and organ version of Duruflé's Requiem, I've heard none better. This, though, is just the crowning point of an engaging and thought-provoking recital, including a perfectly poised and paced Harris Bring us, O Lord God and conductor Graham Ross's exquisite own arrangement of Abide with me.

BBC Music Magazine on "Remembrance"

extraordinary and captivating...In Pierre Villette's mouth-wateringly luscious Hymn To The Virgin and William Harris' ravishing Faire Is The Heaven, the sound it produced was almost mind-blowing in its opulence...a world-class choral group

The Straits Times

These are, all told, performances of real quality and intelligence, by a choir which has carved a highly distinctive niche for itself amid the Oxbridge scramble.

BBC Music Magazine on "Haec dies: Music for Easter"

Clare College Choir, founded in 1971, set the gold standard for mixed collegiate choirs and maintains its prowess in this disc of Easter music…

Fiona Maddocks, The Observer

Here is music with the power to transform your life.

The Times on 'Veni Emmanuel: Music for Advent'

Carefully chosen, elegantly sequenced and excellently sung: one of the most attractive new Easter recordings of the year.

BBC Radio 3 on The Choir of Clare College, Cambridge disc of ‘Stabat Mater dolorosa: Music for Passiontide’ for Harmonia Mundi

This is an outstanding disk... I find it hard to believe that the music has ever been better sung than in this searing performance by Clare College Choir.

Brian Wilson of MusicWeb International on The Choir of Clare College, Cambridge disc of ‘Stabat Mater dolorosa: Music for Passiontide’ for Harmonia Mundi

It is full of highly sentient, technically excellent performances, and is atmospherically recorded.

Classical Music Magazine on The Choir of Clare College, Cambridge disc of ‘Stabat Mater dolorosa: Music for Passiontide’ for Harmonia Mundi

...not only a collection of some of the most beautiful choral music to be heard but exciting evidence of the evolving and unique identity of the choir itself ...All the works on this disc [have] been extensively and intelligently crafted. The singing and, above all, direction are of such consummate musicianship.

Gramophone - Caroline Gill on The Choir of Clare College, Cambridge disc of ‘Stabat Mater dolorosa: Music for Passiontide’ for Harmonia Mundi

This is immensely beautiful singing, the Choir of Clare College under Graham Ross producing a sound which is neatly manicured and has been polished to an almost flawless shine. Balance and intonation are impeccable and every tiny nuance and inflection is lovingly nurtured. … One of the big successes is Gesualdo’s ‘Caligaverunt oculi mei’ – … with a choir which sings with such technical perfection as this, this is a performance which has real impact. At the climax of Bruckner’s ‘Christus factus est’ … Ross keeps his powder dry right up to the moment when it all bursts out with spine-tingling effect

International Record Review, Marc Rochester on The Choir of Clare College, Cambridge disc of ‘Stabat Mater dolorosa: Music for Passiontide’ for Harmonia Mundi

The Choir of Clare College has long been a personal favourite, and this performance did not disappoint ... Graham Ross’ outstanding training of these young singers produced a sound which it was hard to believe was coming from a group of students. ... this was choral singing which it would be difficult to equal anywhere. *****

Music OMH, Melanie Eskenazi on Choir of Clare College's Bach: St John Passion at King's Place, London

The choral singing … with the Choir of Clare College, Cambridge, supplying the semi-chorus – was unstintingly sumptuous and secure.

The Guardian