These performances are outstanding: strong, polished and alive. One of the highlights is the Archduke, commandingly bold and immediate. Stern, Rose and Istomin...offer playing which...

These performances are outstanding: strong, polished and alive. One of the highlights is the Archduke, commandingly bold and immediate.

Stern, Rose and Istomin...offer playing which is consistently perceptive and satisfying... Their playing never seems to need more assertiveness: it encompasses the music with absolute naturalness and command of expression and with a marvellous sense of musical continuity. The Archduke is one of their best things: it simply unfolds before us.

-- Gramophone [10/1970]

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The performances are outstanding: strong, polished and alive... One of the highlights of the set is the Archduke, commandingly bold and immediate...; the Ghost Trio also shows these artists at their most communicative.

-- The Penguin Guide to Compact Discs & DVDs [2003/4 edition]