By Richard Fairman [Financial Times, 20 February 2008]
Since the stir caused by his invigorating recordings of Mozartís operas there has been a keen following whenever RenÈ Jacobs appears in the opera house. For these performances of Handelís Giulio Cesare, shared between Brussels and Amsterdam, he has brought the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra with him for a few weeks in the frosty north.