Skip Spratt, Saxshed.com
“The independence of parts and contrasting dynamics make for a very enjoyable listening experience on Images in Blue.”
…”The New Hudson Saxophone Quartet has performed some very challenging music on Quartet at the Crossroads. The compositions by the composers of The American Composers Alliance are beautifully and respectfully handled by the quartet of Cohen, Goldrosen, Demsey and Ruedeman –all fine saxophonists!”
Hubert Culot, United Kingdom
Review of a CD recording of ballet Stryga; Music from Six Continents series
…“The work may be experienced as an abstract piece of colourful, evocative and superbly crafted music.”
ILWC Journal (International League of Women Composers)
…Barbara Jazwinski’s demands on the listener are uncompromising: the voyage to her musical bailiwick is a worthy undertaking…
French Jazz Magazine; Review of Capstone Records CPS 8641, 1998
…closing with a glorious solo “Visions” by Barbara Jazwinski
Francesco Martinelli, Improjazz, France
…Barbara Jazwinski’s “Visions” for clarinet solo avoids the extensions of timbre and scale found in much of the newest clarinet literature… while still sounding very modern. Long arpeggios and melodic lines traverse the instrument’s entire range, hinting at motivic relationships that are never explicitly stated. This piece shows off Lamneck’s “traditional playing” in it full glory…
Robert Kirzinger, Fanfare
Contemporanul, Bucharest, Romania
…Winter Dreams by Barbara Jazwinski combines romantic nostalgia with elegance…
The Advocate, Baton Rouge
…”Sequenze Concertanti”, a work by Tulane professor of composition Barbara Jazwinski, was commissioned by the Louisiana Sinfonietta. Sunday’s premiere performance showed a work of interest, featuring layered rhythms and episodes both static and of Bartokian ferocity…
The Times-Picayune
Review of The Seventh Night of the Seventh Moon:
This setting was notable for purity of expression and a direct manner in which the slight, exotic vocal embellishments enhanced rather than obscured the mood…
The New York Times
...And a new String Trio, by Barbara Jazwinski gave glimpses of a young talented voice, creating shimmers and bursts of mysterious string sound – as if wisps of Webern and Bartok were drifting by, inspiring reminiscences of things past…
The New York Times
…the trio made its point with Webernesque brevity…interestingly conceived materials…fierce musical energies…
The Times-Picayune, New Orleans
Pianist Barbara Jazwinski played her own “Dialoghi”….”Dialoghi is composed of quick, violent gestures and short, isolated bursts of action, and it carries quite an impact…
Claire Seymour
Opera Today
...This is a lovely composition which powerfully captures the spirit of the poetry, the personality of the elusive but bewitching protagonist, and which is performed with musical intelligence and sensitivity.
Bob Moore
American Record Guide
It is a haunting work.
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