Oustanding are the two Strauss masterworks: Don Quixote...the 13 variations spring to life on poetic, vibrant manner, and are even more convincing than performances under Beecham and Kempe. Also sprach Zarathustra, likewise is even more detailed than Reiner's two versions... remarkable in every way, and that incldues the recorded sound. Bill Newman, Music and VIsion

Fresh from the archives, this recording of Strauss' Don Quixote with Mitropoulos conducting the WDR Symphony is a gem. The cello and viola depict the romanitc Don and early Sancho Panza with telling effect. The recording includes Also sprach Zarathustra. It has an immediacy and clarity that belies its 1959 vintage. Gavin Engelbrecht, The Northern Echo

Mitropoulos collectors won't want to miss hearing one of his last concerts. International Record Review

There is a strong sense of cumulative integrity about [Mitropoulos's] Don Quixote. It's expressive, characterful, and burnished with mellifluous lyricism as one establishes from the outset, and as is reinforced by the phrasing in the Thma, when Quixote and Sancho Panza are both introduced...
The companion work was Also Sprach Zarathustra...Mitropoulos's commitment is unflinching, powerful and predicated on threading the symphonic needle through the sections to present it as a cohesive whole. Any interpretative caveats then are swept away by the fulsome command and direction of the musicianship. Jonathan Woolf, Musicweb International