ParnhamVoices has been carving out a reputation for itself as a high quality group of unaccompanied singers. This reputation was further enhanced on Friday evening at their most recent concert in support of the Magdalen Project, "a unique meeting and learning environment set in glorious open countryside on the Dorset - Somerset border."

This twenty voice ensemble, led by their highly respected conductor John Mingay, started the evening with a selection of early music sung with great feeling and emotion. The Russian section of the programme was once again one of the highlights of the evening allowing the singers to show their ability at the rich, sustained singing full of colour and life needed for the pieces by Arensky and Rachmaninov.

The music continued through a series of madrigals to the Victorian era and the lush part songs of Goss, Barnby and Wood beautifully sung with warmth and control before finishing the evening with the great rhythmic show tunes from Cole Porter and Joseph Kosma - Let's Do It (let's fall in love) and Autumn Leaves respectively. Viva La Musica, written recently, brought the evening to a resounding close, an evening which was received with great enthusiasm by an enraptured audience.