"Jansons offers 'big band' Schumann, in a performance of the Spring that demonstrates that a long-established symphony orchestra can take on the new boys and girls ... Jansons's sap is clearly rising ... There's a great deal of subtlety, too, in the phrase-shaping, with woodwind especially exhibiting bags of character and freedom

"Mariss Jansons's Schumann 1 is never quite dangerous, but it is fresh, affectionate and in places exhilarating (and well recorded) ... Intensity rises a notch or two in the Schubert, and it's good to see this remarkably precocious symphony appreciated for what it is rather than allocated to the 'charming but slightly inconsequential' category under which so much early Schubert is half-acknowledged, half-dismissed"