"Of the previous albums in this Brahms series, I've heard only the First Symphony/Haydn Variations coupling ... and, in both of those works, I felt that Fischer's renditions were excellent, but ... not really in the very top category of performances. This performance of the Third Symphony is considerably more than that, because it achieves, with one significant exception, a clarity of texture which far too many performances of this work fail to attain ... My only trouble with this new recording is that, ever since I heard the Masur/LGO Philips recording ... with its slower tempo in the first movement, all other conductors sound as if they're hustling things along too much in this section. Otherwise, I love this new Fischer recording!".