The very American actors are all committed, energised and thoroughly professional, with good interplay between Fred Child and Jared McGuire…violinist Tianwa Yang, light of touch, comes into her subtle own as the Soldier wins the Princess with his fiddling

a fine performance all round…ensemble values are high, with actors and instrumentalists nicely integrated and a strong sense of give and take that reflects the recording’s theatrical origins. Violinist Tianwa Yang is dexterous but unshowy in her all-important solos, but there’s never any sense of her attempting to upstage the Virginia Arts Festival Chamber Players, all of whom are very much her match in terms of virtuoso refinement

perhaps because neither the three actors nor any of the seven instrumentalists hog centre stage, the fable works well on its own terms...The musical performance under JoAnn Falletta, with Tianwa Yang as the violinist, is neat and crisp without being too slick; perhaps occasionally it’s a bit cool, not earthy enough, but it never becomes routine.