"Kleiber senior's innate and deep understanding of the score and his instinctive feeling for ..the Viennese idiom... remains unsurpassed; ....The vocal glory of the set remains Sena Jurinac's Octavian. Here in more refulgent voice... she gives the performance of one's dreams.... In my view, ... Maria Reining's Marschallin.... natural, stylish and very moving in its simplicity..... As a whole this set, above all, recalls the kind of rapport between the artists you would have heard at the time in Vienna..... Ludwig Weber's Ochs is a ripe, assured assumption sung with total command..... I know of no better." © Gramophone