“The orchestra is impressive: the Balthasar Neumann Ensemble summons up the perhaps biggest original sound in the world, chooses feverish tempos, but also evokes idyllic moods. Thus, double applause for Hengelbrock, who also conducted. And music that one could certainly perform more often.” Wiener Zeitung
Mozart, Il re pastore

“Thomas Hengelbrock and the Balthasar Neumann Ensemble went to work with so much vitality, but also with a feeling for lyricism, tone colors, and musical rhetoric, that it was a refreshing delight: historical performance practice without signs of wear – a rhythmically stirring summer hit.” Opernglas
Mozart, Il re pastore

“And when intelligent and technically highly talented musicians perform this work, those who are receptive sense something of the incomprehensible and enigmatic energy of the human power of imagination. People who can convey such impressions are called geniuses. The instrumental part undulated and quivered, was electrifying unto the last sixteenth note. The choir, which is made up of self-assured professionals, followed the daring ideas of the highly inspired conductor with fascinating precision.” Rhein-Neckar Zeitung
Haydn, The Creation