Billboard Magazine, Bradley Bambarger, May 31, 1997 Critics Choice

"Symphonic works with a compelling intellectual and expressive power equal to the great symphonic composers of the Old World, but with the liberated vision of an artist from the New World....one of the most important composers of our time."

Rheinischer Merkur, Germany, January 10, 1997

"Music of archaic strength, mythical importance, and dramatic power."

Stuttgarter Nachrichten, Stuttgart, June 22, 1990

"Coates is rough and rugged, and her more agitated sections are fearsome indeed, unleashing a volcanic power."

American Record Guide, Mark Lehman, March 1997

"A totally new dimension of sound...This is overwhelmingly great music."

Burkhard Schmilgun, JPC Catalogue, Germany, Oct. 1996

"An arrestingly personal idiom, sheer originality, and looming eloquence..."

Grammophone, England, Michael E. Oliver, March, 1997

"These symphonies are true symphonies; of that there is no doubt from the very first note heard; They leap beyond technique, bearing the deepest emotionally coded messages of mankind... This is powerful and great music."

FonoForum, Germany, January 1997

"Gloria Coates sets worlds on fire with her symphonies, as magnificent as apocalypses...This music is as fascinating as the the erupting of a volcano."

Sueddeutsche Zeitung, Germany, Brembeck, November 12, 1996

"What matters, moreover, is the musicality of a composer with something to say and her unique solutions as to how to say it."

Musical Opinion, England, Denby Richards, Spring 1997

"Perhaps the most original and moving symphonist of our time ...Seekers of the next post-Mahlerite after Allan Pettersson need look no further, while my new-music ears appreciate Coates's gloomy sincerity, and the originality of her writhing sonic surfaces."

Village Voice, New York, Kyle Gann, April 29, 1997 Pick Hit

"The anguished, luminous expanses of sound move one as directly and intensely as the slow movements of Franz Schubert's symphonies...An exciting and important release by cpo."

Das Orchester, Germany, Brigitta Mazanec, June 1997