Even Dvorak's biographer and critic John Clapham does not recommend listening to all the Legends at a sitting, but programming them a few at a time. As a whole record, they can make perfectly acceptable background listening; and for all their many beauties and felicities, I cannot think that this is to damn with faint praise. Dvorak was basing his pieces for the most part on folk tunes or folk dances, with occasionally (as in the charming No. 2) a more personal and Romantic turn to the phrases. It is music for the entertainment of pianists who are up to the music's sometimes quite taxing demands, and for the entertainment of listeners who are not being too demanding. Wyneke Jordans and Leo van Doeselaar have exactly the right approach, which does not exclude the occasional moment with the tongue in the cheek. Dvorak relishes his material, but he is not here taking the passing Romantic gesture too seriously; and that helps to give the music its charm. The recording does well with what can in places be slightly cluttered textures. An enjoyable record of enjoyable pieces. They brought a smile to Hanslick's face, and Brahms sent a message to Dvorak expressing his own pleasure, adding how much he envied such fresh and cheerful invention.'