...it’s ravishing stuff when performed as well as this. The Holst Singers create great clouds of texture, which surge, form, and melt before your ears. The sound is soft-focus, where consonants retire coyly behind banks of choral colour. The airborne quality each phrase achieves is testament both to Stephen Layton’s irrepressible sense of shaping and to the rapport between choir and conductor...

For a bag of musical bonbons de violette, this disc can't be beaten.