BRINKBURN FESTIVAL: WILLIAM BYRD

 (The Journal - 12 July 2008)

Whether in various permutations of voices … or all combined, the technical standards were outstanding with flawless tuning, pinpoint accurate entries and firmness of tone in even the quietest passages. But it is interpretative choices that make a performance and every line had an inevitable flow, individual voices shifting seamlessly in or out of prominence to illuminate even the most involved counterpoints with a superb balance between the individual and the collective.