"This release with Peter Dijkstra has much to commend it, and despite my niggling criticisms this is a very fine set of performances of some of Arvo Pärt's best choral music".
"The Bavarian Radio Choir gives authoritative accounts of these subtly complex works, skilfully marshalled by conductor Peter Dijkstra and smartly captured in this impressive live recording".
Fono Forum
2015 September
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Clemens Haustein
2015 September
"Der Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks ... präsentieren klangmächtig zwei Werke für grosse Besetzung ... Die innige Klarheit ... fällt bei Dijkstra ein Hang zu weicher, geschmeidiger Diktion auf. Pärts strenge Innerlichkeit kann dabei zum einlullenden Wellness-Ton degradiert werden".
The gramophone
2015 July
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Malcolm Riley
2015 July
"Vurdering: G (Editor's choice)" - "Playing and singing are both beyond reproach as is the glowing recorded sound in Munich's Prinzregententheater and Herkulessaal".