Ironically, when we actually listen to Salieri's music, we hear, not the work of an insecure hack, but the stylish craftsmanship of an esteemed artist, with a lively rhythmic sense and a Mediterranean bent for warm, dark sonorities. -ClassicalCDReview
"Not likely to be outshone for a long time … the most accomplished account vocally and the orchestra is on superb form." —Gramophone
"I believe that interpretation should be like a transparent glass, a window for the composer's music." —Vladimir Ashkenazy
"The composer directs with unrivalled insight throughout." —Penguin Guide
"For sheer loveliness ... she was hard to top." —New York Times
"Thrilling ... a conductor with the fire, ardor and precision of Toscanini." —Fanfare
Delightful. -Penguin Guide
"The First Symphony is compelling, the Second is the greatest, the most revealing performance ever recorded, and in the Fourth Symphony, infinitely grand and penetrating, Klemperer reveals more than most of us dreamed of perceiving." —Gramophone
"I think a life in music is a life beautifully spent and this is what I have devoted my life to." —Luciano Pavarotti