“[Rob Kapilow] has two innate qualities that make him great. First, he possesses that rare gift of gab and a corollary personality that is instantly likable. Second, he has the kind of mind that can construct paragraphs to explain to both sophisticate and novitiate the inside baseball aspects of classical music. When the subject is Beethoven, there is a lot to explore.
There is always a eureka moment in one of Mr. Kapilow’s presentations and this day it came at the very beginning of Mr. Neiman's realization of the entire sonata. Beethoven begins to develop his opening theme in the very first four measures, some of the meatiest writing for a solo instrument prior to Anton Webern. Thanks to Rob Kapilow, we could all appreciate this stroke of genius live in performance.”
— Fred Kirshnit, The New York Sun
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