Ole Edvard Antonsen gave a remarkable performance of James MacMillan's trumpet concerto »Epiclesis«, demonstrating impeccable virtuosity and luminous tone.

(classicalsource.com 11/2009)

One is immediately struck by the dynamism of the playing, the ability to unfurl and manipulate the long lines, and the versatility to switch approach from vibrant, bravura passages to the more sinewy, yearning melodies that Gregson threads so cleverly into his scores. The slow movement is especially inventive in its assembly of plaintive melodies and the music's more earnest motivations – some really enthralling playing from Antonsen here – which leads logically to the finale, a movement opulent in contrast and virtuosity.

(International Record Review 09/2008)

Ole Edvard Antonsen is the trumpet-playing wanderer between different worlds. The vivid scenes of »Svaldbard« made the audience hear the unique nature of Spitzbergen, through synthesizer, bass and drums. In Rimsky-Korsakov's »Flight of the Bumblebee« Antonsen presents himself as a juggler with tongue and lips – and has only warmed-up for an even more vehement »Funiculi, funicular« with innumerable coloratura. Plenty of applause!

(Braunschweiger Zeitung 05/2008)

His tonal sound is of pure brilliance and has a warm core, his intonation is impeccable and the embouchure of clear perfection. Although not all works of the CD feature a repertoire-character, still Antonsen's trumpet-play does so at all points.

CD Nordic Trumpet Concertos – BIS

(klassik.com 09/2007)

The superlative of Ole Edvard Antonsen as one of the greatest »trumpet-soloists worldwide« in the CD-booklet is explained by his Salto-mortale-technique, flittering tongue- f unambulation and lively figure-fireworks in a seeming condition of utterly weightlessness.

CD Golden Age – BIS