‘the little match girl passion’ CD on Harmonia Mundi is appearing on numerous best-CD's-of-2009 lists, including: Washington Post, Time Out New York, National Public Radio, Alex Ross in the New Yorker, The Independent (UK), Gramophone Magazine (UK), the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, De Standaard (Belgium), New Jersey Star Ledger, and Amazon.com.
It starred as Best Classical Album of the Year in Time Out Chicago, and Sequenza 21 named it one of the best CD's of the decade. It is a special holiday recommendation of Mark Swed in the LA Times and of Russell Platt in the New Yorker, and was John Schaefer’s choice for Classical CD of the Year.