As the Poet, Samuel Boden channels the quartet’s agonies while standing apart from the action, and his tenor is heard at its most eloquent.Classical Source, 7 June 2019A strong quartet of soloists move through the seasons… Samuel Bodensensuous, Brittenish summer.Gramophone, February 2016Best of all, Samuel Boden’s classic, appealing tenor finally shone out in Qui tollis peccata mundi, with perfect projection and diction enabled by supple strength right through his range, in an account at once sincere and affecting: a talent to watch.Bachtrack, 11th April 2017Boden...perfected a lean, mean tone, well suited to the austerity of the textThe FT, 15 July 2015Boden displayed a beautiful limpid tone and line totally in keeping with his character.Opera Today 30 March 2014
As the Poet, Samuel Boden channels the quartet’s agonies while standing apart from the action, and his tenor is heard at its most eloquent.Classical Source, 7 June 2019
A strong quartet of soloists move through the seasons… Samuel Bodensensuous, Brittenish summer.Gramophone, February 2016
Best of all, Samuel Boden’s classic, appealing tenor finally shone out in Qui tollis peccata mundi, with perfect projection and diction enabled by supple strength right through his range, in an account at once sincere and affecting: a talent to watch.Bachtrack, 11th April 2017
Boden...perfected a lean, mean tone, well suited to the austerity of the textThe FT, 15 July 2015
Boden displayed a beautiful limpid tone and line totally in keeping with his character.Opera Today 30 March 2014