“Replete with marches, romanzas, waltzes and gallops, this score abounds in melody and opulent orchestral effects.”
“Fanfares, surging gestures, ascending and descending figures, and lush orchestration suggest John Williams, Erich Wolfgang Korngold and the orchestral showpieces of Ottorino Respighi. The score is effectively conceived, entertaining, and avoids wearing out its welcome.”
“The thing that I love about ‘Sunset’ is that there’s a rhythm in it that really grabs you,” she says. “You sort of feel like you’re in the ocean, and he’s really captured that. And it’s written in a way, sort of like ‘Scheherazade,’ where it has seven different movements but it’s all one piece.”
“…hints of Mendelssohn, Sibelius and Britten, among others, give the score a sense of lyrical and heraldic familiarity, as if the composer is paying tribute to predecessors.”