[the recordings] are rewarding readings of rigour and intensity from a conductor every music lover should know. Record Review / David Mellor, Mail on Sunday / 05 September 2004 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- . . . a 1978 Schubert "Unfinished" with the Vienna Philharmonic is testimony enough to his genius, the first movement (with repeat) initially poised on a nerve's edge, tremulous and full of energy; the second properly relaxed. Kleiber was one of the few conductors to mark a profound climate change between the two movements, and his benchmark performance contradicts the notion that Schubert's Eighth is a mere torso. It has never sounded more perfectly complete. Record Review / Rob Cowan, Independent (London) / 06 September 2004 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The musical strengths are easy to list. Each work -- or, in the case of "Tristan", complete scene -- is a living whole. Complex, richly variegated musical arguments emerge like single, soaring spans of melody . . . If you haven't yet discovered Kleiber, don't hesitate. Record Review / Stephen Johnson, BBC Music Magazine (London) / 01 December 2004 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------