May 2013

Since launching in 1997, Signum Classics has established itself as one of the UK's leading and most reliable independent labels, its output ranging freely across genres and through the ages to create a catalogue of more than 300 recordings that can surely claim to be one of the most open-minded and catholic currently available. Issued to celebrate the label's first 15 years is a six-volume set (each separately themed disc also available individually) that cherry-picks from the back catalogue to provide a value-for-money introduction both to Signum and to the genre under consideration itself.

Typical of the delightful bran-tub eclecticism to be found on all of these compendium discs is the A Cappella Collection. Boasting contributions from venerable vocal ensembles such as the BBC, King's and Swingle Singers alongside relative newcomers Les Sirenes and Voces8 among others, the repertoire stretches from Monteverdi to Michael Jackson and is dispatched with consummate ease by all involved.