“De Winter’s lucid and assured tenor voice has a radiant warmth throughout, with clear diction, as he responds to each composition with nimble dexterity and phrasing. He is superbly accompanied by The Brook Street Band, who are outstanding with sensitive playing, and de Winter and instrumentalists perform with intuitive musicality. The Brook Street Band also performs two enchanting instrumental sonatas by Salamone Rossi.”
Organists Review, September 2024

“While pondering the looming 350th anniversary of Heinrich Schütz’s death in 2022, David de Winter struck on the idea of creating a program that would emphasize the composer’s Italianate style, juxtaposing his works with ones by his Venetian contemporaries. The result is a compilation of several gorgeous solo cantatas, motets, and arias by Monteverdi, Sances, Rossi, Grandi, and, of course, Schütz. The playing and singing are excellent…”
American Record Guide

‘Brook Street Band Delight in All-Handel Concert… This inaugural Handel Festival was a High Quality event for both young and old, aficionado or beginner and it is to be hoped it is not the last time BSB present such an all round view of GFH.’
Seenandheard-international.com April 2017

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‘They performed as one, delighting in the thematic detail, the swapping of musical phrases, the suspensions before the resolutions, made so much more intense by the use of original baroque instruments played without vibrato… If ever there was an example of why chamber music should be heard live, this was it, especially when performed so expertly and with such evident enjoyment.’
Salisbury Journal, June 2015

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‘First Violin Rachel Harris was all singing tone and irrepressible, dancing energy – a joy to watch and hear.’
The Arts Desk July 2016

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‘…a stylish adventurous programme distinguished by this vivacious group’s infectious relish in its work.’
The Observer

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‘…a winning mix of vitality, warmth and expressiveness…a riveting performance which varied between affecting simplicity and visceral excitement… all the playing was high quality, but particular praise must go to the cellist Tatty Theo, the group’s founder, for her beautifully subtle underpinning and shading of the melodic lines above.’
The Strad Magazine

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‘…the players sustained the freshness and elegance of their playing and let their unabashed enthusiasm overflow – stimulating performances to satisfy the most ardent baroque fan…’
The Ham & High

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‘The musicians endeared themselves to the audience. . .These lively, enthusiastic, young women, eager, knowledgeable, highly skilled, put their whole selves into what they are doing. They care passionately about the music, as their lively commentaries made clear, and this communicates itself to everyone present.’
Stanley Sadie

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‘…the splendid, stylish and scholarly Brook Street Band…’
Eastern Daily Press

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‘…a wonderfully authentic…fascinating and compulsively watchable theatrical experience.’
The Stage

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