"One would be hard-pressed to choose a standout performance, but flutist John McMurtery's commanding execution of Density 21.5 is a strong candidate...McMurtery's sensitivity to Varese's formal design and his confidence in the flute's extreme registers made a possibly incomprehensible work intelligible and enjoyable."
- Phillip Ratliff, The Birmingham News

"...'Carceri d'Invenzione IIb,' a tour de force for flute bristling with invention, was played brilliantly by John McMurtery...[exploring] the extreme high and low registers of the instrument, zapping back and forth at hyperspeed..."
- Anthony Tommasini, The New York Times