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BBC MUSIC MAGAZINE (May 16, 2023)
“The title track, There are Things To Be Said (2009) by Ingrid Stölzel strikes a more reflective note. Exploring ideas of silence, stillness and non-verbal communication, this is a richly introspective work for flute, oboe and piano.”
AMERICAN RECORD GUIDE (January/February 2021)
“Ingrid Stölzel’s Leonardo Saw the Spring is melodic and crystalline, with lines
in the flute that soar and grow and breathe. This four-movement work is
down-right beautiful.”
SAN FRANCISCO CLASSICAL VOICE (November 20, 2018)
“The concert ended with Stölzel’s settings of five poems by Emily Dickinson for ensemble and soprano, The Gorgeous Nothings. They were anything but nothings. Her treatment of Dickinson’s fragmentary poems made the point clearly, displaying a fusion of well-constructed support structures and a gift for melody.”
CLASSICAL REVIEW – ALLMUSIC.COM (Summer 2018)
““The songs here are extremely sensitively set. Stölzel’s style fits gloriously with the poetry of Walt Whitman (sample anywhere in Soul Journey-Three Whitman Songs), as she devises concise and original ways of depicting Whitman’s almost ecstatic tone.”
I CARE IF YOU LISTEN (October 2, 2018)
“Ingrid Stölzel has a gift for evoking a sense of longing. One listen to any of the pieces on her new album The Gorgeous Nothings, released on Navona Records, makes this instantly evident. Despite the album’s breadth of music, which includes two song cycles and three standalone pieces, it finds its cohesiveness through its consistent exploration of our humanness: our search for meaning, our mortality, and the inevitable struggles that come with our existence.”