"These remain very pleasing, listenable performances even at a single sitting. Textures are clean and clear, and the fact that the music was arranged by Franz Doppler, later corrected and approved by Liszt, seems to make the orchestration in general less screechy than Liszt's norm. Toss in excellent engineering from the Liszt Concert Hall in his home town of Raiding, and the result is a very enjoyable experience that just might be more musically substantial than you thought possible"

"Die Aufnahme der ersten sechs Rhapsodien in der Fassung für Orchester, die das Orchester Wiener Akademie nun vorlegt, hat in diesem Sinn also durchaus enzyklopädischen Charakter ... Vibrato ist bei den Streichern also nicht zu hören"

"However authentic the instruments and Haselböck's faithful adherence to the scores, these accounts strike me as a touch sterile and lacking élan in terms of the spirit in which they were composed"