50 Favorite Albums of 2010 from NPR Music
“I love it when an album like this comes along and you can tell immediately—from the playing, from the repertoire, from the engineering—that absolutely nothing was taken for granted. Brooklyn Rider rips through one of the trickiest classical quartets (Debussy's G minor from 1893) and makes it sound easy, but the group has surrounded it with pieces written in the last couple years. My favorite is 'Lydia's Reflection,' by one of the quartet's violinists, Colin Jacobsen -- music that's as still and clean as a northern lake at sunrise.”

"The soloist...was Colin Jacobsen, who played with fine control and produced a limpid, crystalline sound. In the fast, middle movement (“Eryximachus”), Jacobsen delivered the perpetual-motion solo line with assurance and surefire accuracy, while the slower sections (the very moving “Agathon” movement, for instance) provided him with an avenue to play with poetic sensitivity."

“...the Bernstein (Serenade After Plato’s Symposium), with violinist Colin Jacobsen. It -- and he -- just plain rocked.”

“...the driving, gypsy-inflected improvisations of Colin Jacobsen’s tour de force, Brooklesca.”

“...he shows a remarkable sense of intimacy with his instrument.” The Austin American-Statesmen

“...coaxing every ounce of character out of each phrase.” The Strad

“...born to the instrument and its sweet, lyrical qualities.”