“A finely-balanced program of works featuring the oboe virtuoso in various chamber aggregations with strings, and in one selection also with clarinet…The recording venue was a hall in Worcester, Massachusetts, and the multichannel option places the players much more realistically on the soundstage than the two-channel, plus giving a hint of the hall’s acoustics around the listener.”

John Sunier
 

“The sonics here are first rate. Definitely one of the best sounding SACDs I’ve so far listened to.”
 

“Pentatone’s SACD featuring oboist Keisuke Wakao is a beauty. Wakao, assistant principal oboe of the Boston Symphony, has an active career as well in concerts and teaching. Here he is with other superb musicians associated with the Boston Symphony in a varied program featuring Mozart’s Quartet K. 370 and Prokofiev’s Quintet Op. 39. These recordings were made in September/October 2002 in Mechanics Hall in Worcester, Mass, produced by Everett Porter, who did a fine job in capturing the sound of the ensembles.”

Robert Benson
 

“..splendid musical ensemble playing, refined and spatially realistic recording sound”