"Unpredictable, audacious, exhilarating and continually fascinating, the Songbook is an outstanding project. A Lucullan feast for the ears" INTERNATIONAL RECORD REVIEW

 "The NMC Songbook will remain as a vital document of song composition at a particularly interesting point of development for British music, a point in which the songbook itself will have played no small part" MUSICAL CRITICISM

 “Anyone listening to these discs will find many things to savour…a treasure-trove of delights BBC MUSIC MAGAZINE *****

 “an invaluable overview of British music … beautifully sung and played by more than two dozen top performers” THE OBSERVER

 “One of the most imaginative anniversary projects I have seen” RADIO 3 CD REVIEW

 "Provides a remarkable snapshot of the oxymoronic mongrelism of UK culture ... ranging from high art and literature to the vernacular and the comic" THE WIRE