While this music-making is very enjoyable in its way, whether it can legitimately be described as 'Legendary' is another matter. The sound is certainly remarkably good—indeed, it conveys quite a modern effect (helped by the NoNoise remastering technique—see May, page 1561—employed to reduce the background), although the style of the playing does not. The Bach suite opens in an expansively amiable fashion after a harpsichord flourish, as if to say 'we know about harpsichords in Bach'. However, the absence of double-dotting is striking and tempos are leisurely, notably in the Badinerie, but also more agreeably in the Sarabande and Minuet, played with great warmth and the fullest string timbre.
This is not, then, for authenticists and neither is what must have been one of the first complete sets of Water Music in stereo. But the famous tunes older generations will have got to know in the Harty suits come up splendidly, and the Amsterdam horn playing is particularly resonant.'