I share RF's pleasure in this performance, particularly in respect of the boys' clarity, mentioned in the original review (it has since been issued on a single LP—reviewed in October). It's not the easiest thing to keep the Haydn pot aboiling with an all-male choir of about 30 voices pitted against an orchestra of roughly the same size. Although the instruments have the advantage and rightly so, since they maintain continuity, in the CD version there is a sense of choir and players being side by side rather than in line astern. This gives a delightfully effortless feeling, particularly in the more strenuous passages. The soloists shine forth in glory, though David Thomas's first few notes are somewhat chilling, warming up in company. The general spirited bounce is infectious, the more so for being so clear.'