Clarion Seven Muses - Reinhard Goebel

SUDDEUTSCHE ZEITUNG, OCTOBER 2005

From the opening cadence Reinhard Goebel, the radical icon of early music, was in his element . . . Goebel shone with his highly motivated ensemble.

EARLY MUSIC REVIEW, FEBRUARY 2007

M Haydn: Andromeda and Perseus; Vokal Ensemble Köln, Saarbrücken RSO; Oehms OC 911

There is warm, expressive playing from the Saarbrücken Radio Orchestra; Reinhard Goebel controls the performance magisterially. He is alert to the often taxing demands of the writing for the two main characters who dispatch their coloratura and legato passages with considerable skill.

BBC MUSIC MAGAZINE, MARCH 2007

M Haydn: Andromeda and Perseus; Vokal Ensemble Köln, Saarbrücken RSO; Oehms OC 911

Joseph Haydn’s brother may have lacked his sibling’s genius, but this decorous and decorative work rises in places to music of genuine imagination and charm, and shows definite dramatic ability . . . . vivid and characterful playing from the Saarbrücken Radio Orchestra under Reinhard Goebel and nicely managed choral singing.

GRAMOPHONE, MAY 2007

M Haydn: Andromeda and Perseus; Vokal Ensemble Köln, Saarbrücken RSO; Oehms OC 911

Haydn’s vivacious symphonic arias and powerful accompanied recitatives often bring to mind Mozart’s Il re pastore, written for Salzburg a dozen years earlier . . . . the technical standards of singing and playing are high and the opera is another intriguing piece in our composite picture of the “other” Haydn.