Brahms: Serenade No. 2 in A Major, Op. 16

“Exciting performances.” American Record Guide

“Kertesz's Brahms cycle has wonderful freshness and Magyar fire; his invigorating Serenade in D has surely never been bettered. Sound is occasionally a little rough.” BBC Music Magazine, March 2013 *****

“The playing and the recording are gorgeous—just listen to the way the oboe steals in as if from nowhere for its main solo in the slow movement” Gramophone Magazine (Symphony No. 1)

“This is a really excellent performance … This orchestra plays marvellously” Gramophone Magazine (Symphony No. 2)

“Kertesz's is an exemplary reading of the Fourth Symphony” Gramophone Magazine

“[The Symphonies] are superbly played by the Vienna Philharmonic and this account of No. 3 is deeply musical, unaffected and natural, distinguished by warm string tone and eloquent wind playing. The wind blend beautifully, even the somewhat thin Viennese oboe tone sounds splendidly expressive … The recording is exceptionally well-balanced; it has just the right perspective and the relationship between wind and the rest of the orchestra, which seems to baffle many balance engineers these days, could not be more musically or naturally judged. The same goes for the St Antoni Variations the last part of which were recorded in Kertesz's much lamented absence.” Gramophone Magazine