 The album received a mixed reception . Blair Sanderson of AllMusic found Svoboda 's compositions to be imitative , specifically comparing Over of the Season to work by Leoš Janáček and Symphony No. 1 to " equal parts " of Hugo Alfvén and Jean Sibelius , with " just a dash " of Carl Nielsen . Sanderson criticized the harmonic language of Concerto for Marimba and Orchestra and found DePonte 's performance to be admirable but " weakly planned " . Similarly , Robert Dettmer of Classical CD Review found Svoboda 's work to be derivative and " expressively sterile " , and " no more engaging than any other marimba concerto " . However , Dettmer acknowledged that the marimba was one of his least favorite solo instruments . Dettmer wrote that DePriest " serves the composer dutifully , but not as enliveningly as one might have expected " . 
