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While documenting the unusually intimate relation of language and music, the material of this CD shows another characteristic feature of Eötvös: the constant inclination to experiment, to search for new solutions, new instruments from piece to piece. Just as the individual pieces use different languages, so changes the method of creating the music that is to be extracted from the text. With his opera entitled Three Sisters, Péter Eötvös won several international prizes, among them the Diapason d'or de l'année (France), the ECHO Preis (Germany), the Prix Caecilia (Belgium). The piece on this vocal album, to which he has given the title Two Monologues, intertwines two original parts from the Three Sisters opera, the arias of Tuzenbach and Andrei. The four additonal pieces on the album offer a comprehensive historical survey of those works of Péter Eötvös that investigate the possibilities afforded by various languages and the human voice.

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This title of the Vocal Works disc is somewhat of a misnomer, as these are not simply works for voices like choral works, but works requiring voices, and not just human voices. The opening work is extracted from Eötvös's Chekhov opera, Three Sisters, another work is a bizarre ritual, one is for chorus alone, and two are for tape (one with the sound of crickets). Nonetheless, this disc is well balanced and a good way to know the compositions of a leading composer and conductor better.

     —Grant Chu Covell, lafolia.com

A selection of his vocal works (BMC CD 038) is perhaps even more exhilarating, not least because it enables one to hear how much the composer has changed in almost 40 years - and how much he has stayed the same.

     —Paul Griffiths, hungarianquarterly.com

Throughout his composing career Peter Eötvös has found a broad range of vocal music and music theater genres conducive to experimentation, as the five varied works on this disc readily bear out.

     —Jed Distler, classicstoday.com