« ... One remains filled with wonder by Edith Canat de Chizy's bewitching art. Edith, who studied under Maurice Ohana and Ivo Malec, sets a perfect example of post-war independence towards factions and dogmas –a typical feature of the creators of her generation... »

Pablo Galonce - Le Monde de la Musique

January 2001

« ... Any attempt to label the music of this former student under Ivo Malec and Maurice Ohana has proved useless for some time now. Her linear evolution is not a modernistic one in terms of language or of an hypothetical female approach, of course, but also in terms of style, which is more easily recognisable by the quality of mutations than by a structural continuity. »

Variations of light

« This is particularly striking in the string work Siloel (1992) and even more so in the irresistibly appealing violin concerto Exultet (1995). The latter –a piece inspired by the Easter night- spreads out in a quivering dream and smoothly multiplies variations of light thanks to a composition in which all the elements are closely combined. Laurent Korcia brings an uncanny light to this musical adventure which appears to be made of multifarious ignes fatui... »

Pierre Gervasoni - Le Monde

november, 30th 2000

« ... One is carried away by the physical and spiritual features of Edith Canat de Chizy's music. Yell (1985) is filled with orchestral distortions and multiplies depths of field. In this piece, the selective affinities of the various stands are spatialised. Canciones (1992) is a 12-voice piece in which ecstasy prevails, spreading like a radiation of the soul. Listening to the violin concerto Exultet (1995), one is won by a vibratile fever, a joyful energy, a leaping rapture; the voice sounds like an iridescence of the orchestra, a kind of will-o'- the-wisp... »

Bernard Mérigaud - Télérama

november, 15th 2000

« ... One enjoys this music like a daydream through which the entire living and material denseness of the being seems to be contagiously won over by heavenly integrity... »

Karol Beffa - Classica

May 2000