Although "Blue Clarinet Stomp" offers five more tracks, Dodds's alternately mournful and exultant horn sings with equal brilliance on both sets.

From the 1999 reissue liner notes by Bob Blumenthal: "If someone had ordered up a program that explored four distinct areas of jazz expression with equal brilliance, they could not have done better than Empyrean Isles.

Danie Craven said of du Preez, "To my mind he could have played any position on a rugby field with equal brilliance."

He shines with equal brilliance upon the just and the banker, upon the day of a man's wedding or upon the day of his death.

He was a true Renaissance man whose scope embraced the financial world and the arts with equal brilliance.

Steven Ritter of Audiophile Audition wrote that the Symphony performed "with a brilliance and verve equal to any on record" and were "entirely attuned to the 'English' idiom".

Robert Seidenberg, Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at SUNY, wrote that Chesler defined manhood "with a brilliance and erudition equal to the task", describing Chesler as men's "Tocqueville".

As an actor he was a cosmic clown moving with equal brilliance and brio from satyrs and Svengalis to Camille, the role in which he brazenly cast himself on Garboed waters.

Cloud added, with equal brilliance.

He then served with equal brilliance in the French invasion of Russia and the 1813 Germany campaign.