The gala was also reviewed in "Classic CD" and "Hi-Fi News", and was additionally discussed in "The New York Times", Tim Ashley's "Richard Strauss" (1999), Frithjof Hager's "Claudio Abbado: die Anderen in der Stille hören" (2000), Ulrich Eckhardt's "Claudio Abbado: Dirigent" (2003) and Matthew Rye's "1001 classical recordings you must hear before you die" (2017).