Review in 'Church Times'
I recently found a nice review in the Church Times of the Arcadian Singers concert in Oxford in March, the concert featured first performances of two part-songs of mine I Stood on a Tower (2008) and How Clear, How Lovely (2010). In the review it states, "Phillip Cooke, Thomas Chevis, and Alexander Campkin are young composers of substance: their approach is largely tonal, but the tonality is richly extended and vitalised by a range of added-note chords. They are aware of the era that they belong to, but not unduly diverted by it." It then states, "Cooke, who possibly fared best...achieved a real wanness and tangible poignancy later in Tennyson’s I stood at the tower. “A 21st-century take on the partsong”, the composer dubbed this and the ensuing rare Housman, How clear, how lovely." Cheers.