 Geoff Brown , reviewing Marin Alsop and Sarah Connolly 's recording in The Times , praised the directness of both Kay 's and Turnage 's writing and described Twice Through the Heart and its " awful clarity " as " among the best in Turnage 's recent output " . David Gutman suggested in Gramophone that " if listeners feel uncomfortable with the mix of artful delivery and documentary realism , that may be part of the intended effect . " The critics of The Daily Telegraph were later to list this disc among the hundred best classical recordings . 
