A SECRET WEAPON FOR FEST

“… The quintet arrangements are … ingenious in rendering the piano textures of Schumann’s creative Impromptus with a theme of Clara Wieck, and of the Rubinstein Nocturne, because of Onyx’s deftness of articulation. Once more, the Festal Songs for the town of Vienna is probably not top-drawer Strauss, but its sequence of fanfares and hymno