"Sir Malcom Sargent generally plays the purely orchestral passages more swiftly than when he is accompanying Heifetz. This introduces an element of drama that is...

"Sir Malcom Sargent generally plays the purely orchestral passages more swiftly than when he is accompanying Heifetz. This introduces an element of drama that is missing in performances that reduce the music to a syrupy wallow in slow romantic schmaltz...Despite the relatively rapid tempos, the music never sounds rushed. [T]his is the finest recording of Bruch’s masterpiece ever made in terms of both performance and sound."

-- Arthur Lintgen, Fanfare [7/2006]

"Except for the human voice itself, probably no instrument of music so intimately reflects the individuality of the musician as the violin. So this record gives us, in addition to the fabled Heifetz technical wizardry, the Heifetz personality. That personality is encountered here in its maturity—and in the A major Concerto perhaps something slightly beyond that. Throughout the D major, however, the justly famous powers of intonation are exhibited at their nearly supernatural best."

-- Gramophone [9/1972] Reviewing Mozart Concertos