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Mar
“Under Harry Bicket’s direction the variegated beauty of the score is brilliantly brought out: with its outstanding home-grown soloists, this period band is at the top of its form, while the procession of arias, duets, and trios yields one delight after another.”
 
5* The Telegraph 
“When these five wonderful voices combined for the final chorus, I thought I had gone to heaven.”
“Here, in any case, was a superb performance that left the audience glowing with pleasure. Unobtrusively yet firmly overseen by Harry Bicket, leading the spritely English Concert from the harpsichord, it was staged in bare, uncostumed concert form.”

5* The Times
“It was performed exquisitely by Harry Bicket, the English Concert and a quintet of singers that it would be hard to surpass”