Fanfare Magazine has a new review for Nadia Shpachenko’s Quotations and Homages recording in their “Not To Be Missed” section:
“…a superb and superbly recorded program of pieces as fresh as they are ready to pay respect to the traditions that led to their creation. …framing this set of relative miniatures with the works of Tom Flaherty was a stroke of genius. His integration of electronic and acoustic elements speaks to a long-fostered commitment to both, and his way of introducing the electronic element into acoustic textures is subtle and imaginative. … There is not one cliché or superficial piece on offer here. … Anchoring all are two essential elements. Shpachenko’s playing is everything it needs to be and more. Her Mozart fragments are idiomatic, especially evident as they dissolve into the “other” elements in each variation, bespeaking a complete knowledge of the piano’s history and literature commensurate with these composers’ all-encompassing rhetoric. Eras seem not to exist for her, and neither does musical dogma, allowing her the freedom to speak the music’s multifarious dialects. Capturing all of it is a first-rate recording. …[it] has a depth, clarity, and transparency that work equally rather than one sacrificing the others. The acoustical space is resonant without taxing listener patience, a perfect environment for music of such protean character. Excellent notes top off an extremely worthy package.”