Ronn McFarlane’s friend is the lute, and Carolyn Surrick’s viola da gamba her cherished soul. Integrating these two enduring instruments is significant and meaningful with an enlightenment to last a lifetime. -Christie Grimstad, ConcertoNet.com

Creative reinvention — along with the consummate artistry of these player-arrangers — is also why such a diverse slate of sources all sounds so natural and organic together, even though little of it was originally composed for these instruments. Its appeal should be equally broad — to fans of classical, Baroque, and folk music alike.
-orartswatch.org (Oregon ArtsWatch)

McFarlane’s lute playing is malleable and compelling, his sound and sense of pacing just right in Baroque and traditional music, and fresh in his original contemporary numbers. Surrick’s viola da gamba is more distinctly Early Baroque no matter what the genre. The long, resonant tones from her instrument place the sound clearly in the “pre-cello” era. -WRTI -Fermi’s Paradox chosen as Classical Album of the Week

For the first time in the history of Instant Replay, two people chose the same track as their favorite music of the month -- it's that good! -classicalwcrb.org (WCRB, Classical Radio Boston)

Of course the playing is exemplary, with each musician bringing decades of experience to the collaboration.
-textura.org

It is the refusal to stay put in one definite period or genre that makes this of a somewhat surprising appeal, and by that I mean it surprises because everything hangs together even though one would not expect to combine and sequence them all in quite this way. McFarlane is a marvelous lutenist, as subtle as he is accomplished and Ms. Surrick makes a perfectly vivid contrast with her own supreme musicality.
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