"His tone is radiant and rich, charged with the sensitivity of his soul...Rajeev Taranath's swara, raga conception and implementation were fed on genuine deep founts of inspiration."
- The Hindu, Delhi 2001

"What a lovely mind for 'swara' and tone Rajeev Taranath displays! Each note leaves a lovely, languishing trail of tone behind it."
- The Economic Times, New Delhi

"It was a great performance from Rajeev Taranath at the NCPA. Bombay's connoisseurs will certainly love to hear him more often"
- Mohan Nadkarni, The Times of India

"Indian music was the focus of Cal Arts' Spring Music Festival; one high point - a luminous single raga from Rajeev Taranath and Swapan Chaudhuri."
- Don Heckman, The Los Angeles Times, 1998

"Taranath is making music that moves sublimely from brooding introspection to climaxes of breathtaking excitement."
- New Classic/Online World Music Magazine, 2003

"Rajeev Taranath commenced his concert with a satisfyingly exhaustive presentation of Rag Yaman --a deeply introspective alap, complicated jhala and richly embellished madhyalaya gat followed by drut and atidrut gats revealing his amazing taiyyari. It was a concert to be stored in one's memory."
-Susheela Misra, Sunday Times of India, Lucknow

"The raga's efflorescence was unfolded by the well-laid alap, charming jod and varied rhythms added up to a deeply evocative effort."
- The Times of India, Bangalore

"Slowly, with strength and tenderness, this consummate artist built a structure of ordered sound which I would dare to compare with Beethoven's Hammer Klavier. Each note was electrifyingly true and rich in inner light... Surely Rajeev Taranath is the true disciple of his illustrious preceptor".- Adrian Rawlins, Music Critic, Australia

"Solid layakari and the ability to extemporize exciting tihais resulted in nothing better than a thrilling presentation from the gentleman scholar and sarod master".
- The Daily, Bombay

After a long time a very high standard of music was heard at the Rana Smriti Samsad's Annual Conference. Rajeev Taranath's evocation of the raga revealed fine imagination, aesthetic sense and technical expertise".
- The Statesman, Calcutta

"The hypnotic expansion of space and volume, the gradual intensification of feeling, created a unique atmosphere in which patient meditation and natural admiration for the profound musical skill of the performer had time and opportunity to mingle".
- Fred Blanks, Sydney Morning Herald

" Rajeev's music comes through as a constant dialectic between deep classical rigor and an irrepressible emotional intensity."
- Phoenix, Bangalore