[... ] Berne Concert presents duos and trios as well as the
quartet—a piano-bass duet begins with tentative rumbling and delicate, tart
chordal voicings as Schweizer follows Workman's pliant solemnity with gradually
increasing drive. On "Timbral Interplay," a woven, minimal carpet of mallets
and toms gives support to the pianist's contrasting network of phrase-rhythms,
evidence of the rapport between Schweizer and Cyrille. Though a bit disjointed
at times, Berne Concert presents four of the music's most creative figures
going for broke—the result is tremendously exciting, even if not always
successful.