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a sublime quality of sound

Scotsman 19 March 2012

played with electrifying insight

bachtrack 18 September 2011

remarkably assured, impeccably drilled and with a biting incisiveness that brought the music to vibrant life

Edinburgh Reporter 10 november 2011

Conway deftly released the deep emotion inherent in music full of lively melody yet imbued with yearning

Herald 13 December 2011

the ambitious programme was as exhaustingly absorbing as any there has been, or is likely to be, for a very long time.

Scotsman 10 March 2011 *****

 ..the new touring programme by the Hebrides Ensemble... is among the most complex devised by the group in its 21-year history. Conway conjured a concept programme that interleaved the multiple movements of Pulse Shadows with a series of Fantasias by Henry Purcell... the spectacular singing of American soprano Claron McFadden and the fiercely concentrated playing of the brilliant Hebrides musicians..

Herald 10 March 2011****

Mahler Das Lied von der Erde arr Schoenberg
'It brought together on one platform two of the greatest British singers of their generation – tenor Andrew Kennedy and baritone Roderick Williams – alongside a superior group of players, even for an ensemble with regular high standards in personnel, and conductor Will Conway, who rose above himself in what I believe was his finest, most concentrated performance...
Herald 18 Nov 2010 *****

Mahler Das Lied von der Erde arr Schoenberg
Conductor William Conway expertly steered his musicians through this soul-searching journey that veers from melancholic contemplation of mortality to life-affirming joy.
Scotsman 19 November 2010 ****

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