“Each song is its own particular pleasure…. gracious, open-hearted, and warm… Hetty, without melodrama, has a splendid intelligence about the way to set each song off to its best. You might think of her as an intuitive jeweler who knows how to present even the smallest stone so that it gleams memorably. … Hetty herself has a very mobile voice and vocal texture… Her sound is sweet but she can be tart, and her phrase-ending vibrato seems emotive but never melodramatic… Her phrasing intelligently follows the contours of the lyrics, but it’s never a rigid up-and-down. Her diction is superb (and her vowels are deliciously cultured) even on the most elaborately treacherous set of lyrics, and she makes each song completely believable… but with layers that emerge as we listen and listen again.
IF YOU COULD SEE ME NOW… is uplifted here, because of Hetty’s sweet deep understanding of the lyrics, her understated yet vibrating sincerity. How gentle yet compelling her voice is; how unerringly warm and — to make the cliche apt — how “pitch-perfect”! … The enchantment… is flawless.”
[Under Paris Skies, album review]