The Kansas City Star hails organist Jan Kraybill as “a local treasure” while reviewing her new recording, The Orchestral Organ:
“The Orchestral Organ is a stunner. Imagine some of classical music’s most powerful orchestral works performed on Helzberg Hall’s Casavant organ. If you think that sounds good on paper, wait until you actually hear the recording. Kraybill, who is also the conservator of the Casavant organ, is a one-woman orchestra whose renditions of Wagner, Tchaikovsky, Verdi and Sibelius will leave you slack-jawed. …
—Patrick Neas, The Kansas City Star
Reference Recordings has now made several recordings in Helzberg Hall, so the engineers know how to capture the hall’s spaciousness and pristine acoustics, which are absolutely stunning on the Super Audio iteration. But even on a regular old CD player, “The Orchestral Organ” will knock the socks off any music lover, even those who claim they don’t like organ music.”