Review from AllMusic: "For anyone with ears to hear, the performances here are magnificent. In these recordings, the Philadelphia under Ormandy truly sounds fabulous. Building on Stokowski's foundation, Ormandy raised an orchestra built for the gods of music. As amply demonstrated in these performances recorded when the Ormandy/Philadelphia partnership was at its peak, there was no better conductor/orchestra relationship at the time. Listen to the plush strings in Barber's Adagio and Vaughan Williams' Fantasie on a Theme by Thomas Tallis, the piquant woodwinds in Bartók's Concerto for Orchestra and the Scherzo from Tchaikovsky's Fifth, the brazen brass in Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D minor and the Great Gates of Kiev from Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition, or the brilliant ensemble in Respighi's tone poems and Rimsky-Korsakov's Scheherazade. But the best thing is that Ormandy and the Philadelphia do not use their astounding virtuosity to show off their technique; they use it to show off the music. Even in obvious virtuoso pieces like the Bach transcriptions, Ormandy and the Philadelphia play the music with polish and precision, but they do not overwhelm it with panache and passion."

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