Browse: Het Collectief (chamber ensemble)

Reinbert de Leeuw and Collegium Vocale Gent are masters of tonal shading: whether attending to top or internal lines they achieve a near-on three-dimensional effect…superb playing and singing... — Gramophone Magazine, March 2016 More…

It’s hard to believe that only fifteen instruments are involved in the more dramatic passages, though the reduced forces also allow the lighter-than-usual voices of the two soloists (both excellent)... — Katherine Cooper, Presto Music, September 2020 More…

Their interpretation [of the Messiaen] and the close-focused recording, featuring an overtone-rich, almost trumpet-like clarinet, are ideal for the episodes dominated by birdsong and dancelike... — Gramophone Magazine, January 2024 More…

Collections of Second Viennese School arrangements have proliferated during recent years, and here Het Collectief combine the tried with the unfamiliar to a thoughtful and provocative degree. — Gramophone Magazine, March 2023 More…

The members of Het Collectief are finely attuned to the demands of this music...[Van Camp's] music, on the basis of this release, is worth getting to know. — Gramophone Magazine, March 2014 More…

a properly fast and furious performance and with playing - and coordination - of such razor-sharp precision…among the best. — Gramophone Magazine More…

This is a world of shimmering beauty, reflected in glowing colours...Two sets of songs...are sung with light, lyrical warmth by soprano Katrien Baerts. De Leeuw's arrangements of the Berg engage... — Gramophone Magazine, December 2014 More…