De Morgen, 28/07/2000

You could also hear Bach in the most devilish concert of the festival Saintes & late in the evening, Jan Michiels plays for almost two hours short pieces of Bach, Bartók, Ligeti, Kurtág and Janácek. There is not one piece that doesn’t give us a view on the abysses of the soul (…) a concert as an example for the anti-commercial direction of Herreweghe.