Best's recordings with the Corydon Singers, focused music by Bruckner, Brahms and Mendelssohn, received positive reviews. Their 1990 recording of Vaughan Williams'
Serenade to Music and other works was selected as Record of the Year by both
The Guardian and
The Sunday Times, and was nominated for the
Brit Awards. Their recording of Bruckner's
Te Deum and
Mass in D minor was selected as one of the top releases of 1993 by the
BBC's
Record Review. Bruckner scholar Hans Roelofs described Best as a reference performer of Bruckner's religious music, for recordings of his
Requiem, the
Mass No. 2 (1882 version),
Psalms 114 and
112; along with his motets, Mass No. 1,
Mass No. 3,
Two Aequali,
Libera me (II),
Te Deum and
Psalm 150. •
Bruckner: Motets, Hyperion CDA66062, 1982 •
Bruckner: Mass in E minor, Libera me, Zwei Aequale, with English Chamber Orchestra wind ensemble, Hyperion CDA66177, 1985 •
Bruckner: Requiem, Psalms 112 & 114, with English Chamber Orchestra, Hyperion CDA66245, 1987 •
Bruckner: Mass in F minor, Psalm 150, with Corydon Orchestra, Hyperion CDA66599, 1992 •
Bruckner: Mass in D minor, Te Deum, with Corydon Orchestra, Hyperion CDA 66650, 1993 ==References==