'Oliver Knussen's Variations proved a chiming, clangerous exercise in compression, without a wasted note.'
Tim Page, Newsday, 13 November 1989
'Oliver Knussen devised Variations, Op 24 - twelve of them in six minutes-plus packed with pellets of atonal power as well as tiny flights of sizzlingly virtuosic fancy and wit.'
Leighton Kerner, Voice, 5 December 1988
'Oliver Knussen's Variations had a dark, almost stony faced drama to it, operating at some distance frmo the dessert-like textures that many of his orchestral pieces have accustomed us to.'
Bernard Holland, The New York Times, 13 November 1989
Tim Page, Newsday, 13 November 1989
'Oliver Knussen devised Variations, Op 24 - twelve of them in six minutes-plus packed with pellets of atonal power as well as tiny flights of sizzlingly virtuosic fancy and wit.'
Leighton Kerner, Voice, 5 December 1988
'Oliver Knussen's Variations had a dark, almost stony faced drama to it, operating at some distance frmo the dessert-like textures that many of his orchestral pieces have accustomed us to.'
Bernard Holland, The New York Times, 13 November 1989