"The string quartet "Crosswinds" filters the landscape and folk music of Virginia's Blue Ridge Mountains through a compositional voice refreshingly detached from schools and trends. Impressionistically personal and good humored, it shares, with Brouwer's other work from the mid-1990s an invigorating directness."
Julian Cowley, The WIRE

"The disc opens with a cross-cultural string quartet ('Crosswinds') in three movements that refers to the atmosphere of Virginia, where the composer has spent time, and evokes country music and scenes of mountain and river. It is a beautiful work, attractive and interesting."  
American Record Guide