This enjoyable series of performances, with their de luxe recording quality, reflects well on the whole production. You won’t look here for a first choice Enigma, but you will find thoroughly idiomatic and engaging musicianship.

This is an exceptional disc in so many ways...The Kansas orchestral playing is flamboyant, assured, but always affectionate, and the recorded sound is possibly the most realistic I’ve come across...[Stern's] reading is full of character, managing to make the piece seem far more than a string of miniatures...This is already in my end-of-year Top 10 list.