 Michael Miller of "The Berkshire Review" appreciated the "precision and sensitivity" of the playing and Karlmar's "lucid, straightforward, and ... virile" approach to the program.Miller also complimented Sylvan's performance and called the recording "memorable" and "thrilling", recommending it for any classical music library.Brian Horay, a classical music critic for "The Huffington Post", questioned Kalmar's claim that his selections should not be interpreted as political, writing that listeners "[encounter] a more difficult and nuanced 20th-century musical landscape of existential questions, gruesome descriptions, defiant submissions and cold dissonance."