Reviews of the 1958 concert from which this recording of Bruckner's seventh symphony was taken bordered on the ecstatic. The Neue Weltpresse's review hailed Otto Klemperer as, "one of the last great conductors of the Wilhelmine era," alongside Strauss, Nikisch, Weingartner, Blech, Kleiber and Furtwängler, and praised his handling of the Bruckner as, "song like, full of streaming lyricism and powerfully shaped climaxes. The music sang and flowed in a manner that seemed to relate it to Schubert's symphonies."
