“… A program rich with energy and unusually adventurous placed the National Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine in a highly favorable light when it gave its only Sydney concert during its Australian tour on Friday. This is an orchestra with many virtues. Its strings can conjure up a vibrant songfulness; the woodwinds have a fruity, penetrating ripeness; the brass could endanger the walls of Jericho; the percussion might wake the dead…”

The Sydney Morning Herald