“Vinogradov is the genuine bass article but his pitches can be approximate…Orchestral double basses, though, have terrific impact.” BBC Music Magazine, May 2014 ***

“Petrenko gets appropriately dark and brooding textures from his strings and percussion ensemble, unleashing sounds of raw ferocity…[Vinogradov] has a magnificent dark bass and trenchant delivery of the text, an ideal voice for this music. At Naxos’s bargain price, this is unmissable.” Sunday Times, 20th April 2014

“this performance demonstrates Petrenko’s and the Liverpool orchestra’s fine grasp of the composer’s evolving idiom, with the result that this is a deeply impressive issue all round… Gal James’s timbre might be considered a shade (no more than that) light…but her intonation and diction are fine and her phrasing is excellent…Vinogradov is also most impressive.” International Record Review, May 2014