A grand John J. Puccio review for the premiere solo recording for the new Julia Irene Kauffman Casavant Organ performed by Jan Kraybill:
“Can you really think of anyone you’d rather have make an organ record than Reference Recordings? Well, anyone you’d rather have making any recording than Reference Recordings. For over thirty years they’ve been producing some of the best audiophile recordings around, and their current release, Organ Polychrome: The French School, with organist Jan Kraybill is among their finest-sounding releases. … In Organ Polychrome: The French School, Ms. Kraybill plays music intended to show off all the power and glory of the Julia Irene Kauffman Organ. She does so splendidly; it is all quite effective. … The instrument sounds rich, wide-ranging, realistically distanced, deep, full-throated, powerful, and lifelike. Of course, we also get the all-important bass so favored of organ fans; the organ gets down to room-rocking frequencies in select tracks. This is obviously a recording that organ fanciers will enjoy.” —John J. Puccio, Classical Candor