DVD Video, Boston Symphony Orchestra (orchestra)

Munch was noted for his performances of French music and the [Franck] is treasure indeed...searing, warm-blooded and slightly brisker than Monteux's benchmark recording made the same year with... — Gramophone Magazine, September 2011 More…

he conveys a natural, relaxed, humane demeanour that justifies the nature of his physical activity...he shows himself to be a musician with both considerable expressive range and a direct, unaffected... — BBC Music Magazine, July 2011, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Precise yet expressive, Steinberg's Beethoven Symphonies Nos 7 & 8 are models of clarity and rhythmic dynamism. The Haydn is excellent. — BBC Music Magazine, May 2012, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Leinsdorf is efficient in Mahler's First Symphony and Till Eulenspiegel — BBC Music Magazine, January 2012, 3 out of 5 stars More…

Leinsdorf deploys a bizarre praying mantis manner on the podium that nonetheless unleashes playing as lustrous as the Symphony Hall acoustic itself. — BBC Music Magazine, July 2008, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Cherishable 1977 performances from one of the last of the 'old school' of conductors, seen here at the top of his game, relishing every moment as though it might be his last. — BBC Music Magazine, September 2012, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Some of the most expert playing here comes in the Beethoven Symphonies, in which strings demonstrate effortless synchronisation and winds pass phrases between one another seamlessly....[Munch]... — BBC Music Magazine, July 2011, 4 out of 5 stars More…