"This latest CD from Jeff Ostrowski and Friends is a compelling, beautiful example of what I would term a 'constructivist' approach to choral performance and pedagogy. Motivated by personal and scholarly interests in Medieval and Renaissance sacred choral music, prompted by the upcoming ordination of a friend, carried out in dialogue with an intergenerational community of musicians, and ultimately involving both church and university constituencies in a multitude of roles, these performances represent both product and process at their best. Those sometimes curious lines we like to draw between composer/conductor/chorus, performers/audience, and subject/object are here dissolved. The result is wonderful art, but not simply art for art’s sake. May their tribe increase!"

— Dr. James F. Daugherty
Senior Editor, International Journal of Reasearch in Choral Singing

"With Summi et Æterni Sacerdoti, Jeff Ostrowski has created a CD with broad appeal for enthusiasts of vocal polyphony. Through his own compositions and those of colleagues (from the present day back to the Renaissance), Ostrowski demonstrates both a love and understanding of polyphony that is a pleasure to behold. The music is bold and passionately performed (particularly the final eight tracks), and makes a convincing case for continuing the centuries-old tradition of vocal polyphony. A wonderful choral experience!"

— Dr. Paul E. Guise
Host, www.Busimusic.ca — Music. Business.Education.

"A few issues ago, I had the pleasure of reviewing Dignus est Agnus, a recording of chant, polyphony, and organ pieces performed under the direction of Jeff Ostrowski, an incredibly enthusiastic and enterprising recent graduate of the University of Kansas, who is also director of music for a Kansas outpost of the Priestly Fraternity of Saint Peter. Now comes another creative and enjoyable disc put together by the indefatigable Mr. Ostrowski.

"Most of the pieces here were recorded live last May at the First Mass of the Rev. James Fryar, FSSP. A host of singers were recruited for the Mass, which was celebrated in St. Joseph's Church, Topeka Kansas (a lovely old 'American-German-Gothic' church where FSSP priests celebrate a Tridentine Mass each week). The ordinary of the Mass was composed by Mr. Ostrowski for the occasion, using many motives, structures, and other musical ideas gleaned from such Renaissance masters as Victoria, Palestrina, G. Gabrieli, and Croce. This is Mr. Ostrowski's usual method of composition and it works very well indeed. He has assimilated the style of the period very thoroughly and adapts and shapes the material for his purposes (and the abilities of his singers) most convincingly.

"The sound of the recording is quite good, given the live performance circumstances. A number of other miscellaneous pieces are included, some recorded in other churches, others from studio sessions. Several pieces by well-known 'golden age' composers, as well as by some remarkable rarities by almost unknown masters of the same period, are given well-judged, straightforward performances. The Gregorian chant Propers are sung with care and a reasonable approach to style. Several spirited organ pieces, mostly played (with considerable musical security) by Fr. Robert Ferguson, FSSP, round out the disc, which is just as endearing and pleasurable as its predecessor.

"Listening to this recording will probably make you want to go on a pilgrimage to northeastern Kansas, to experience for yourself the high quality of liturgical music-making which Mr. Ostrowski so ably produces with his devoted singers. If it is not possible for you, check out his inventive and entertaining website, listed above. In fact, check out the website in any case (The section on liturgical torches is particularly fun.)."

— From a review by Calvert Shenk
in the 2005 Spring edition of Sacred Music