Much has happened to baroque music practice since these performances of Bach's Motets were first issued 21 years ago. The Louis Halsey Singers consist of men's and women's voices and though they are well disciplined, tonally secure in the main and evenly balanced, there is an emotive vibrato which gives the interpretations a distinctly dated aspect. Halsey opted for a single continuo instrument to provide support for the voices rather than a continuo group of colla parte texture. This was doubtless the way in which these works were sometimes, of necessity, performed, but to my ears it seems less than ideal. After all, in the case of Der Geist hilft Bach's original parts for doubling strings and woodwind and continuo have been preserved. The double-chorus motets are effectively balanced in this recording and the parts are mainly well sustained. But Singet dem Herrn struck me as a shade lustreless, lacking in esprit, while Komm, Jesu, komm is inclined to meander. A qualified recommendation.'