"This new CD of a cappella (unaccompanied) choral music opens with Ligeti's Lux Aeterna (1966) ... The effect on disc that the nineteen voices of the quite superb Danish National Vocal Ensemble (DNVE) achieve, under the highly-sensitive direction of Marcus Creed, is, in fact, breath-taking ... In 1982, Ligeti wrote one of his largest unaccompanied works, Drei Phantasien nach Friedrich Hölderlin ... Despite the music at times seemingly reaching the limit of what is possible for a vocal ensemble to bring off, the DNVE once again rises to the challenge, and with some margin to spare. It might be something of an acquired taste, but I must say that I was really mesmerized both by the music, and more so by the stunning vocal virtuosity of these truly 'great-Dane' singers ... Just let this immaculately-performed, faithfully-recorded, and pleasingly well-documented CD amaze you with what the most natural of musical instruments - the human voice - can achieve in the hands of such a stunning choir as the Danish National Vocal Ensemble, under Marcus Creed's superlative direction".