Rick Jones
The Times
July 2008

The voice of experience meets the youth in this album contrasting the voices of countertenor Bowman and the boy chorister Swait.

Swait's voice is clear, bright, and tuned with innate precision, ringing with carefree but studious childhood. Appealingly, he focuses on the mechanics of his singing, maintaining a childish ignorance of the full tragedy of Britten's Little Sir William. Bowman is the uncle, worldly and artistic, duetting with restraint and phrasing with a characteristic elegance and expressivity that Swait duly and sensibly mimics. The pianist Andrew Plant accompanies with sensitivity.