The album was also discussed in a survey of the discography of the Great Mass in "Gramophone" and in "Business Review Weekly", "Diapason", "International Record Review", Peter Gradenwitz's "Leonard Bernstein: 1918-1990: Unendliche Vielfalt eines Musikers" (1995), Renate Ulm and Doris Sennefelder's "50 Jahre Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks: 1949-1999" (1999) and "The Penguin guide to recorded music" (2008).