…confident in style and intonation …, homogeneous, modest, but passionate and endowed with great musicality … … Hidden behind the modest appearance of the recorder consort was a profound passion when playing. Pieces such as “I love my love in secret” (Anonymous) sent shivers down one’s spine. One could feel a gentle breeze pass by while the sounds generated wide, unknown spheres in one’s mind’s eye. During “Allemande” by William Brade, one wished to be able to take to the floor at an imperial ball in the times of Elisabeth the 1st. … (Mittelbayerische Zeitung) … Playing well-conceived, the musical phrases are clear and beautiful, precisely timed decelerations, painfully beautiful dissonances … Polyphony with five voices, of shimmering weightlessness, lyrical elegy in gestures and interpretation, breathtaking changes in tempo: Sometimes finely articulated, light-footed gaiety, then again touchingly melancholic, as in John Dowlands “Pavane Lachrimae Amantis”, which almost had you believe you could hear a tear rolling down the cheek. (Schrobenhausener Zeitung) The consonance was masterly, especially in the wonderful “Fro bin ich dein” by Paul von Hofhaimer. Almost breathless with excitement was the audience while listening to the songs from a handwritten manuscript from 1523. … A concert for connoisseurs!
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