“Randall Svane is clearly an heir to the romantic American tradition.”

Stuart Millson, The Quarterly Review

“Quantum Flight was certainly an energy-intensive and electrifying opening to the concert with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra (RPO) and the Gloucester Festival Director and conductor, Adrian Partington, in exceptionally good form.”

Dr. David Green, The Quarterly Review

“A short presto with pizzicato effects led to a slow finale that contained a fugal episode but was tinged throughout with the profound sadness of Shostakovich and the Richard Strauss of Metamorphosen. Svane knows how to entice the ear and to sustain interest.”

Dennis Rooney, The Strad

“One could only marvel at Randall Svane’s ‘At the Round Earth’s Imagined Corners’. At the text “And death shall be no more,” the final verse of the third sonnet, Svane’s work achieves an apotheosis of surpassing beauty in which the conductor Yehuda Gilad led the strings into an ethereal realm with a ritardando of perfect proportion. No matter that there was one more sonnet to be performed, that exquisite moment proved to be the fulcrum of the work, one of the few times that the climax of a large work is its quietest moment rather than its loudest.”

Paul Somers, Classical New Jersey