—Rafael de Acha, All About the Arts, 1 April 2022, full review
“[A] sense of place and a bow to tradition are perhaps more important than ever…Three Notch’d Road provides both in this down-to-earth, unassuming musical ode to its homeland.”
—Kyle MacMillan, Early Music America, 2 May 2022, full review
“[A]n engaging and varied programme which is delightfully and imaginatively presented. Their flexible line-up means that we have varied sounds and instruments, yet each has a sense of historical rightness and whilst listening to the disc it is easy enough to imagine that you are eavesdropping on some sort of historical event.”
—Robert Hugill, planethugill.com (Top-50-Classical-blog), London, 19 May 2022, full review
“We hear far too little early music from the New World. This CD must surely be the start of the fightback.”
—Michael Schwartz, The Whole Note, Canada, 20 May 2022, full review
“While Three Notch’d Road presents its material faithfully to the period when it was created, their treatments are in no way tired history lessons; on the contrary, in investing performances of their repertoire with vitality, integrity, and affection, the music feels as fresh as anything written today. Folk ballads, dances, dirges, hymns, marches, and more appear during the fifty-three-minute recording, each one meticulously rendered and delivered with conviction.”
—textura, Canada, June 2022, full review
“Shining Shore paints a joyous picture of informal music-making in rural Virginia… The stylistic and emotional range is striking…An enchanting anthology, very well-recorded.”
—Graham Rickson, The Arts Desk, United Kingdom, 16 July 2022, full review