Peter Lieuwen’s Celestial Voices, commissioned by the NMBQ in celebration of the Lieksa Brass Week Solar Eclipse Concert, is the most abstract and least evocative of the works presented. The low brass are featured in the elegant, lyrical horn lines of the opening section, beautifully played by Dan Meier, and bold, disjunct cadenzas for both trombone and tuba. The multi-tongued conclusion drives to the end, again impressive for its energy and clarity.

—NACWPI Journal

Lieuwen’s Celestial Voices is dramatic, intricate, and incisive – the least overtly programmatic and most conventional of the new works.

—American Record Guide

The program concludes with Peter Lieuwen’s Celestial Voices, compositionally the most abstruse in structure, it is nevertheless an effective program ender in that it displays to the fullest the ensemble’s collective virtuosity.

—Horn Call

An excellent choice on this program...finishes the disc in a fine way.

—Tuba Journal