"...it all hangs together with consummate craftsmanship and elemental originality. Indeed, this piece is so engaging, I was sorry to hear it end - surely the ultimate compliment."
(LA Daily News)

"...Similar was Salonen's highly fluid take on a phenomenal exercise in tone color... I don't care what formulas Salonen brings along next time, as long as there's another Hillborg along with it."
(San Francisco Classical Voice)

"...Yet it was Hillborg's score, performed as Monday's centerpiece, that yielded the greatest rewards. With the Bay Area premiere of "Eleven Gates," Salonen and the orchestra made a persuasive case for the composer."
(ContraCostaTimes.com)

"...Better yet was Hillborg's "Eleven Gates"... full of whistling, eddying, stupefying sounds, outrageously clear and eerily beautiful."
(Mercury News)

"Hardly noble, prophetic Beethovenian stuff this, but rather hugely entertaining, sonically enveloping music... there was little question that the floodgates had been spectacularly opened."
(LA Times)

More info on the recording at the Deutsche Grammofon website »