"I compared this performance to one by cellist Morten Zeuthen on Dacapo and found that he played the score more like music and less like effects. So the cat is out of the bag! For all her great technique, Smith has very little concept of musical style. She revels in the novelty of the pieces she plays, but unless the audience is familiar with the music she is performing-and most, including myself, would not know unless we compared her to someone else-they wouldn't know that this music can be made to sound more attractive than how she plays it. Just to be sure, I checked out Zeuthen's recording of the Nørgård Solo Sonata No. 1, and yet again I found that I enjoyed the music much better in his reading, so much so that it almost sounds like an entirely different piece ... So there you go. The music itself is interesting, but Smith's playing really and truly isn't".