"Vitrenko responds to Scenes from a Novel with a jaw-dropping range of otherworldly sounds, from cabaret-like expression to dazzling dissolutions of tone ... Fantasy seems uppermost for Vitrenko and her instrumentalists"

"Dass György Kurtág ein Meister musikalischer Aphoristik ist, ist kein Geheimnis. Selten hat man diese hervorstechend Qualität seiner Musik allerdings mit solch einer Intimität und Ausdrucksintensität vernommen, wie in dieser Einspielung von Vokalzyklen ... Einen grossen Anteil an der Eindringlichkeit dieser Produktion hat die Sopranistin VIktoriia Vitrenko, die ... mit grosser Natürlichkeit agiert, ohne jede überzogene Dramatik und Expressivität - ein Glücksfall für diese Lieder"

"These two Kurtág discs with Viktoriia Vitrenko and Susan Narucki were released more or less simultaneously. Both are song recitals; the unusual ensemble is common to both albums but a couple of works on the Avie issue make use of a piano rather than a cimbalom, while three of the works (accounting in each case for more than half of the duration of the disc) overlap ... In conclusion, while elements of this review are necessarily comparative, I certainly don't wish to imply that I prefer one or other of these fine discs. The repertoire is incontrovertibly fascinating, and the performances and recording in each case are first rate. Adherents of Kurtág's powerful, unique, humane voice will need no persuasion from me to acquire both. Newcomers can rest assured that either issue will provide immense satisfaction"

"A performance of Scenes from a Novel, with Viktoriia Vitrenko as the soprano, is also the first work on Scenes, a Kurtág collection from Audite ... but Vitrenko's contributions also include the first ever recording of Several Movements from Georg Christoph Lichtenberg's Scrapbooks Op 37a-22, settings of aphorisms by the 18th-century satirist, in which the soprano is supported by just a solo double bass. Vitrenko is a cooler, less expressively generous interpreter than Narucki, but her disc is invaluable nevertheless; it fills in another small gap in our knowledge of one of the greatest composers of our time"