"Composer Justin Dello Joio enjoys a top flight slate of performers on Oceans Apart, his latest recording for Bridge...The quality of the rendition and recording are excellent...[re Oceans Apart ]: The scoring is vivid and varied, with imaginative use of harp, percussion, muted brass, and string effects to create the undulating feel of the surf...[Garrick] Ohlsson is a marvelous interpreter...His solo turns reveal formidable virtuosity...The other two works on the CD are for chamber forces...[In Due per Due Carter] Brey and [Christopher] O'Riley are an excellent pairing of performers...[In Blue and Gold Music] the American Brass Quintet and organist Colin Fowler are ideal interpreters for the ebullient, fanfare-filled piece...

The concerto is one of my favorite works of 2023, and the entire recording is highly recommended."

Justin Dello Joio has a dream team of marquee talent for his latest release: Pianists Garrick Ohlsson and Christopher O'Riley; cellist Carter Brey; the Boston Symphony Orchestra conducted by Alan Gilbert; the American Brass Quintet. The excellent organist Colin Fowler might not be quite as familiar a name to the average classical music listener but I know Colin well, for he’s Mark Morris’s music director...

These great musicians surely show up for Dello Joio because Dello Joio is in conversation with music for music’s sake. It all sounds, it’s hard but not too hard, it lays right, the emotions are clear, the harmonies are crystalline, the counterpoint is correct, the influences are the best influences. A lot of classical music written these days aims for something it can never be, but Dello Joio is perched dead center, doing exactly what is supposed to be done.