Lewis M. Smoley, Gustav Mahler's Symphonies: critical commentary on recordings since 1986, first, Westport, CT, Greenwood Press, 1996, pp. 132–133, ISBN 0-313-29771-1.
«Sound and balances are superb for this vintage recording and playing is generally clear and precise as well as idiomatic. The opening of the first movement has a magnificent martial quality with a superb march tread... The klagend outburst near the close is shattering.»
