“Blending 20th-century harmonic gestures with charmingly lyrical and programmatic themes, the pieces featured on this album are both enticing and, at times, a bit challenging…exudes a palpable sweetness and joy throughout.”

—Rick Anderson, CD HotList

"sprightly ...soulful ...songful" 

"Três Cançöes (Three Songs), commissioned by Brazilian soprano Veruschka Mainhard, set poems by Mainhard’s then-seven-year-old daughter Laura.The texts ... are delightfully imaginative and charming, as is the music, charmingly performed by bright-voiced soprano Alisa Jordheim and pianist Kuang-Hao Huang." 

—Michael Schulman, The WholeNote

“Performances are uniformly excellent.”

“[The musicians] have represented [Rami Levin] splendidly with their engaged treatments, and she's provided them with terrific material to perform…seven appealing works that are imaginative, diverse…and distinguished by high levels of craft.”

“[Soprano Alisa] Jordheim delivers the material with immense flair and feeling and [pianist Kuang-Hao] Huang's performance is as stellar. Jordheim gives resplendent voice to stirring renditions of “Sixpence,” “Apple Pie,” “Hey, Diddle Diddle,” and “The House That Jack Built.” It's easy to picture ten-year-olds as captivated as adults as the players make their merry way.”

“One of the album's more fascinating excursions is Línguas Fraternas (Fraternal Languages) for how it explores the rapprochement between different musical languages [performed by] violist Anthony Devroye.”

[I am] "...struck by the gracefulness of the counterpoint in the five-minute piece and by Quintet Attacca's engrossing performance.”

—Ron Schepper, textura.org

“With many of the world-class artists performing on Wings being well-known to Chicago audiences, such as Mathias Tacke, Eugenia Moliner, Denis Azabagić, and Kuang-Hao Huang, coupled with Levin’s own ties to the area, this album was a no-brainer to be a featured New Release on WFMT.  The two individual movements of title work Asas (for clarinet, violin, and piano) is likely to remain in circulation for the charm of the first movement “Bem-te-vi” with its catchy birdsong motif and the atmosphere of the second movement “Sabiá,” evoking morning in a Brazilian forest. The rhythmic energy of “Norte-Sul” from Linguas Fraternas (for viola and piano) is also appealing for repeated listening.”

—Oliver Camacho, Music Director, WFMT