"Karajan's feeling for the sheer beauty of sound was never more acute and the textures, their delicacy, subtlety and the richness of color is all quite breathtaking." —Gramophone Good CD Guide (of La Mer)

Few other versions can match Argerich's playing. -Penguin Guide

This is the best performance of Gershwin we are ever likely to hear. -Gramophone

"Trio Lyra fits perfectly with Impressionists ... and when the players happen to be Erica Goodman, Suzanne Shulman and Mark Childs, who wouldn't want to bend an ear?" —The Toronto Star

"Sumptuous music-making ... the playing of the Montreal Orchestra under Charles Dutoit is absolutely first-class and thoroughly atmospheric." —Penguin Guide

"The sophistication and power of these performances is something to marvel at." —Gramophone, 7/1991

"The aim of music is not to express feelings but to express music. It is not a vessel into which the composer distills his soul drop by drop, but a labyrinth with no beginning and no end, full of new paths to discover, where mystery remains eternal." —Pierre Boulez

"I give as much or more in recordings than in live performance, because recordings are forever. I play like there may not be a tomorrow." —Leila Josefowicz

"This new recording certainly belongs among the great ones." —Classics Today

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