Press:

“Une artist très intéressant dans la mouvance martial/neoclassical ambient est le Tchèque Vladimir Hirsch. Hirsch possède une formation classique, mais s'est très tôt tourné vers le punk, et tous types de musique expérimentales (du rock au jazz en passant par l'électronique). Il va fonder deux groupes essentiels pour le genre qui nous intéresse : Skrol et Aghiatrias. Hirsch est le compositeur attitré, réalisant des morceaux néclassiques, saupoudrés de rythmes martiaux. Le mélange est très avant-gardiste, souvant expérimental.”
Olivier Bernard - Anthologie de l'ambient

“That Vladimir Hirsch has pulled off a masterstroke with Symphony No.4 bordering on genius is without question. That he might also be one the most important avant-garde composers alive today is also a distinct possibility. I would venture there is a mind at work here that is bordering on genius such is the complexity, modernity and scale that Hirsch has delivered with Symphony #4 that few others in the underground scene could hold a candle up to his achievements. This is a simply stunning work that should appeal to anyone with an appreciation for dark music in general and a bent for the neoclassical avant-garde. This is not a release to be dipped into lightly but to be savoured, at leisure, in a darkened space where you can fully immerse yourself and let your imagination provide the film for this epic soundtrack. Breathtaking, moving and darkly divine!”
Adam X - Heathen Harvest

“Creation of unrestrained power, mysterious whispers, drones, synth lines etc, finally constituting a defined wholeness and totality of sound, so vast and universal, so definitively orchestral. This aspect is clearly where his expertise resides, to create a whole atmospheric undercurrent where the listener himself submerges into a specific context and ultimately finds the mystery that lies in this philosophic aural evocation. The music preserves a cadence, this aspect gives an ever evolving dynamism to the orchestral narrative and its defined industrialized rhythm permeates the work within a clear post industrial context, a temporized machine march that commands the movements setting the pace for each section in a rather paused way, accenting the terrible tragic mood from its aural offering.”
Jack The Ripper - Heathen Harvest

“The music of Czech composer Vladimír Hirsch seems like the work of a real original, a maverick who has forged an aesthetic that doesn't sound quite like anything else. The music has a power that's hard to explain but that's undeniably compelling. Listeners of his work that stretches boundaries and has a visceral punch are likely to be intrigued or even deeply moved by Hirsch's ominous, tempestuous sound worlds. ”
Stephen Eddins - All Music Guide

“... Not accidental style mutation, but the unity of means of expression, enabling to musical form to be a fully sufficient transcending vehicle of the idea, the cohesion between space and detail.... ”
Stefano Morelli - Rumore & Ritual