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2004
Cello solo, no overdubs, improvisation and compositions. The first thing attracting your attention when listening to these recordings is this tremendous power and joy in playing the instrument. A truly sensuous pleasure in handling this strung piece of wood. To find out the essential meaning of a sound, it has to be found in your most inner self first and then several possibilities of developing will open up: to disguise, hurl, deduct, keep alive, fight, break up, put together, fan out, shatter, etc ... I just mention this, only to point out that Clementine Gasser combines these two significant elements: the untamable urge to play and her own power of expressing sound. This solo CD debut is a total success, as it allows her to exceed the mastery of her instrument far more than can be expected of a cello solo album. I think she has taken a place between colleagues such as Erik Friedlander, Fred Lomberg-Holm, Marie Frances Uitti or Ernst Reijseger. A real discovery and incredible talent.
(CD Review: Pioneer 23, WKM 2003)
skug - Magazin für Musik (Noël Akchoté)

2004
Gasser's music is ostensibly subversive, it is loud and uncontrolled, but, as previously said, only ostensibly. Gasser develops a feeling, she has all the technique necessary and she possesses a true paw for the cello. The syntactic sequence of form and the sophisticated meshing of different sequences are impressively and uniquely selected. [...] ... listen to it!
(CD- Review: Pioneer 23, WKM 2003)
Concerto-Magazin (Alfred Krondraf)

2000
Wilde Kammermusik (Wild Chamber Music) is what the Swiss-born composer calls her unique mixture of innovatively set sound gestures. Experiment and tradition appear to be interwoven and seamlessly integrated in the process of composition. A sensuously mottled texture, the audible surface of which displays a tremendously succinct character. Clementine Gasser injects her cello with a kind of vitality, serving as the inspirational source of surprising improvisation techniques. Asynchronous undulations of tempi alter with sensed layers of harmony, radiating a rarely experienced sensuous type of magic.
Wiener Zeitung (Christine Dobretsberger)

13. June 2006
[...] Clementine Gasser convinced with her powerful, unique style, ridding itself of all modernisms, with the dramaturgy in her work, with the inner logic of musical structure, the skilful precision and excellent presentation. [...]
from the speech at the award ceremony for the National Award for Composition (Franz Koglmann)