Mahler: Symphony No5; Symphony No6

"[In the finale] there is a greater inexorability and sense of burden now; the battling march against time is more ferociously put down at each hammer blow: the first brings awesome trombones, and Vienna trumpets that really savage the stark two-part counterpoint above; with the second, it is the trumpets and tam-tam that mercilessly dominate."

"Such quintessential Mahlerian passages as the soft string chords followed by the violin solo preceding fig. 33 in the first movement, are Bernstein at his most persuasive and in the new recording the playing is even more sumptuous here than in the earlier. (Symphony No. 7)"

"The whole performance (recorded, in the Bernstein manner, at live concerts) has his personal stamp on it, at times idiosyncratic, but luminous and magnetically compelling, one of the best of his DG Mahler cycle and one of his finest records. (Symphony No. 5)"