“Clyne’s music seems to delight in leading listeners along a particular route before changing course with sharp and unexpected twists and gear-shifts.”
—Pwyll ap Siôn, writing for Gramophone (2024)
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“The Knights deliver the music with impeccable ensemble, and are perfect advocates of this music.”
—Jo Talbot, writing for BBC Music Magazine (2024)
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"WQXR is once again partnering with the New York Philharmonic to showcase music written by fourteen extraordinary composers between the ages of 9 - 17 and all participants in the NYPhil's Very Young Composers program. The compositions are performed by musicians from The Knights."
—WQXR, New York Classical Radio (2024)
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"The Knights, led by Eric Jacobsen, is one of my favorite orchestras to work with. The musicianship is at the highest level and the care and attention that they bring to my music is evident throughout these recordings."
—Anna Clyne, writing for The Strad (2024)
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"I have focused on the greatness of these concertos largely because the performances did them such splendid justice."
—The Berkshire Edge (2024)
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"It’s a summer-ending musical tradition that plays out every Labor Day weekend at the Clark Art Institute."
—The Berkshire Eagle (2024)
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"There is simply no substitute for the joy of recording music by friends and with friends."
—Yo-Yo Ma, in an interview with Anna Clyne for Classical Music
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“There’s this real warmth within the orchestra: they bring such playfulness and care to the music.”
—Anna Clyne, in an interview with PrestoMusic
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“The group’s beautiful performance, oozing with musicality, precision and effective dynamic contrast proved their facility with core repertoire as well as newly minted gems.”
—Sequenza 21/
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“Zankel Hall was abuzz Thursday night where The Knights performed their final concert of the season as part of their new Carnegie Hall residency.”
—Feast of Music
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“There was a bit of an underground vibe in Zankel Hall…classical music and hipness don’t have to inhabit separate worlds.”
—BlogCritics
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“This is the world of The Knights, in which music is a family affair [and] even Carnegie Hall’s Zankel Hall is a living room to which we’ve all been invited to admire and enjoy each other’s playing.”
—CadenzaNYC
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“In almost any other city, an entire cultural center would be built around The Knights, the orchestra founded by brothers Colin and Eric Jacobsen in the late 90s, such is the excellence and commitment they bring to their performances. But perhaps part of their artistic success lies in their flexibility, with players free to pursue other interests outside of The Knights, returning newly invigorated when called upon for a show.”
—AnEarful
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“For ‘Ears of the Book,’ a concerto premiered by The Knights and pipa virtuoso Wu Man last month at Carnegie Hall, Du Yun says she wasn’t inspired by the music of Gershwin itself, but—similarly to ‘Rhapsody in Blue’—the work does move in a series of polaroids, capturing ephemeral moments in time…Another entry in The Knights’s ‘Rhapsody’ project comes courtesy of walking rhapsody Chris Thile. Like Gershwin, he has crafted a piece that is somewhat undefinable.”
—Van Magazine
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“Ravel’s Le Tombeau de Couperin (in the composer’s 1919 orchestral arrangement) fluttered and twirled like Disney butterflies on the Zankel Hall stage at Carnegie Hall.”
—BachTrack
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“At times it made me feel physically uncomfortable - but in a good way, feeling the presence of a massively imaginative spirit finding expression through a collective of smart, game realizers who embody the best of creative 21st-century performance synthesis.”
—BlogCritics
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“Deftly mixing everything from the Baroque, to the Classical and contemporary, the program for a concert by The Knights often reads like the roster of an All-star team—with players from different sports.”
—CANNOPY
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