Volle has just the kind of voice that serves the best interests of Bach’s music. His declamation is clear and lightly articulated, his vibrato tightly controlled and his intonation impeccable…Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin gives fine accounts of the sinfonias, setting the seal on a fine release.

Volle is nothing if not involved and his carefully declaimed singing projects an often effective didactic approach…The constant worry, though, is [his] wildly inconsistent vocal production…The instrumental fillers burst with life, full of all the textural panache one associates with the Berliners.

Volle’s approach generally tends to be persuasive in a quiet, direct fashion, evoking Lutheran devotion, rather than mystical fervour; the final number of ‘Ich habe genug’ does not take off with any particular flight of joy to match the words, but the understated seriousness of Volle’s purpose remains compelling.