‘Norris should be on our screens talking about music every week.’
Richard Osborne The Oldie 2011

‘Few people can unpack a piece of music better.’
David Butcher Radio Times 2011

‘Somebody needs to sign this man up for a series on why we love the music we love, right now.’
A.A.Gill Sunday Times 2011

‘…best of all is Constant Lambert’s Concerto for Piano and Nine Instruments. This little-known piece firmly demonstrates Lambert’s mastery of “symphonic jazz” – a term coined by the composer himself. It’s a furious, red-blooded work, one that benefits from David Owen Norris’s high-octane approach.’
Gramophone 2011

‘And applause for Constant Lambert’s Piano Sonata, music of muscle and strong personality, powerfully projected by David Owen Norris.’
The Times 2009

‘David Owen Norris breathes new life into recently discovered manuscripts…. delightful.’
Jane Austen’s Regency World  Summer 2011

Comic Opera evening 2 Murders & a Marriage
THE WORKS, directed by Norris, performed 2 Murders & a Marriage (librettos written or translated by Norris, music arranged or composed by Norris) half a dozen times in the summer of 2006, in Festivals from Buxton to Oslo, and on BBC Radio 3.
Here’s some of the reaction to the show:

‘Brilliant fun – dazzling – the audience was overjoyed’
Oslo Aftenposten 

‘The tribute Mozart himself would most have enjoyed’ 
The Independent

‘Witty, understated, and wonderfully wicked’
BBC Radio 3

and after people had to be turned away from the performance in the Buxton International Opera Festival, the local paper wrote:
‘Highlight of the Festival was the exuberant performance of 2 Murders & a Marriage – crazy, delightful scenarios sung and acted with sharply satisfying skill by the three singers, who all had a wonderful sense of comedy – even, one might say, farce. From the audience there could only be one response – long live THE WORKS, and come back very soon.’