Reviews

[...] The singing was gloriously balanced with discreetly moulded tone and expressive shape to each phrase, and the distribution of the singers around the space only added to the tangible involvement in the sensuality of the sound. [...]

Ruhe Performance
Great Hall, Sydney University

The morning recitals at the Queen's Hall remain one of the international festival's great artistic trump cards. It was certainly bold of Jonathan Mills to inaugurate the series with an all-Haydn programme that interspersed solo piano works with his all but unknown part-songs. Haydn is the only prolific composer I can think of whose entire oeuvre contains hardly a dull note, and the fortepianist Kristian Bezuidenhout and 12 singers from the splendid Collegium Vocale Gent (one of the world's great small professional choirs) proved the point again. It was a tantalising concert, [...]