Gramophone EDITOR’S CHOICE
“…This release features three outstanding chamber works from different periods of Frank Martin’s career.
…..the Quartet performance by the Utrecht Quartet is wonderfully accomplished, and especially moving in the third-movement Larghetto.
….the Quintet performance by Ilona Timchenko and the Utrecht Quartet has an even greater communicative intensity.
MDG’s engineering presents the performances in impressively vivid sound.
….this is a valuable and distinguished addition to the Martin discography…”
FONO FORUM
“…Ilona Timchenko und das Utrecht String Quartet erweisen sich als wahrer Glücksfall in Sachen Martin, was klangliche Ausgewogenheit, exaktes Zusammenspiel und das enorme, hier geforderte Ausdrucksspektrum betrifft..”