"She explores the clarinet as if a conjurer’s wand and lets the soloist play with techniques suggesting a tone that might have surrounded the Egyptian sovereigns. With the use of circular breathing Martin Fröst conjures up a phantom behind the clarinet as if Tutankhamun were to suddenly discard his bandages to tell us of his short life as sun king and cripple. A chaotic vision of desert sands and dance rise from a string tremolo, accompanied by percussion rhythms and Klezmer-like virtuosic clarinet cadences. Borisova-Ollas sometimes works in the Russian composer’s School with stylistic principles and the golden mask of the Pharaoh seems to awaken her associations with luring danger – using the clarinet's unfinished cry as the signal of a consummate catastrophe." (Sofia Nyblom, Svenska Dagbladet)

"With Martin Fröst as the soloist, Golden Dances of Pharaohs become an almost ecstatic dance procession from the past with the clarinet as the lead singer. ... A wondrous song from an ancient realm that reaches very far this evening" (Martin Nyström, Dagens Nyheter)

"Victoria Borisova-Ollas starts off from Herodotus Egyptian travel reports and the result is a breathtaking musical journey that ends too soon." (Gunialla Brodej, Expressen)