"Cala’s...transfer...reports some scorching string sonorities and an especially pliable slow movement."
Gramophone Magazine

"...- a gutsy performance. A controversial brace of recordings but ones never without Stokowskian interest." www.musicweb.uk

"...make no mistake, he was also a musician to his fingertips." Essex Chronicle

These wartime recordings were made with orchestras that Stokowski formed himself: the All-American Youth Orchestra to undertake tours of South America, and the Hollywood Bowl Symphony Orchestra, comprising crack players from the large Hollywood studio orchestras.