‘For the second work, this brilliant Birmingham choir led by their mentor Jeffrey Skidmore arranged themselves into a ‘parliament’ to debate the nature of love, in a quasi-oratorio using a Babel of unknown tongues. Everyone sang the same pitch, but with different rhythms, resulting in a fascinating sound-world; gradually one realised that this supposedly incomprehensible debate had at least as much reality as the ‘real life’ debates in the Mother of Parliaments. Weird or what?’ (The Independent). Read more…