We have opened a new section of the website: the Tomkins Online Review. It is named in honour of Tomkins, of course, but will have much wider scope. It will offer considered reviews of a range of new and notable recordings and books in several early-music fields. Particular specialisms will be...

- keyboard music of the Renaissance and baroque periods

- organ music - of earlier periods in particular, but with wider scope where there is particular relevance

- choral music - particularly of the English Renaissance

- CDs produced by the traditional cathedral and collegiate choirs of Great Britain

- relevant chamber music of the earlier periods

The Tomkins Review will by dynamic, not static. Reviews will be detailed but primarily positive in tone: analytic rather than assertively evaluative. Any ripostes from artists or record companies will be welcomes and published as notes to the review; comments from readers will be noted and (where permission is given) published as notes to the review, subject to the usual editorial discretion. Click here to read the first CD review.

The picture to the left shows the inside of Edgar Gate, taken from College Green, where Tomkins lived and worked throughout nearly all of his adult life.