Mahler: Lieder aus Des Knaben Wunderhorn; Symphony No2

"Where Mahler marks bewegt (with mobility), one really feels movement in the phrasing. No one profiles the advancing march quite as zealously as Bernstein (piccolos, glockenspiel, trilling horns et al)...while the euphoric coda is precisely that, with Bernstein making even more now of those panoramic chords as summer sunshine floods the scene with light. (Symphony No. 3)"

"Wind playing throughout is beautifully finished and stylish, and at fig. 23 in the first movement the horns and violins provide a moment of pure Mahlerian ecstasy while in the finale (at 27), when the theme mounts up from the cellos into the violas, the playing is of seraphic beauty. (Symphony No. 2)"

"The First receives a vital performance with some splendidly alert and beautiful playing; the opening movement convey the joys of spring with its Wayfaring Lad associations, while the second, with the relaxed Ländler tempo, sounds more rustic than usual. (Symphony No. 1)"