"The quintessential romantic hued symphony & Boulez relishes a diverse palette; The Baudelaire/Poe-like funeral march & a blazing finale which smashes the image of a Boulez iceberg to smithereens"
"A cool, late Kandinsky tapestry; epic and complex, but filled to the brim with color and form, so much so, one can repeatedly lose oneself with it for hours on end"
"A Pierrot-like lyricism permeates Boulez's performance of Mahler's most surreal work. Almost cubist, this 7th more than justifies Schoenberg's pronouncement as the death of romanticism"
"An 8th of contrasts. The divine as feminine lover bathed in angular rays of browns & blues. Contrary to the image of the 8th as a throwback, Boulez's 8th fits perfectly between the 7th and DLVDE"
"This 9th has all the haunted, Berg-like dark beauty of a Tahitian pearl with exquisite details revealing those all important glimmers of dark greens, blues & reds against a stark, black background."
"This, with the 5-7th, 9th & the unfinished 10th, is Mahler at his most progressive. This performance echoes this & serves as a much needed antidote to a repertoire that is dangerously becoming stale"
"Boulez coaxes both players and singers into producing sensuous sounds and colors which could come straight out the most transparent & lucid Klimt paintings"