‘Earthrise: The Lying Down Concert was a spectacularly enjoyable opening event… inspired by the Earthrise photograph of the earth brought back from space by the Apollo 8 crew, and sung by its dedicatees, the Ex Cathedra choir, from a breathtakingly spotlit setting on the shadowy balcony overhead … climactic finish of Thomas Tallis’s heartstopping 40-part motet, Spem in alium, evidently Roth’s inspiration. All the performers should be unstintingly congratulated, but the format’s a winner of itself – it should be given regularly around the country, on the NHS, to contribute to reducing health costs, and surely the next step has to be for lying-down Proms.’ Read the rest of the review…