"If you are a thoughtful, practical, intelligent chooser - as is our soloist here, Jennifer Koh - you make your choices not on what you can play, but rather on what draws you, what compels you, what calls you ... And so it has been in an ongoing relationship/collaboration between Koh and Saariaho - the composer attended Koh's recording of these pieces - in which the violinist revels in Saariaho's brash brushes of color and flagrant flaunting of string technique ... Koh has found music that has uniquely challenged and inspired her, and, because she is an exceptional artist, she is giving us something unique and inspired ... And whether we end up liking the music or not - it's definitely not easy stuff, we know that Koh has taken us to that end honestly, as true as possible to the composer".