This outstanding CBS issue was one of my Critic's Choices last December, and it makes an excellent CD with the sound now outshining even the excellent Decca recording for Chung, with the soloist balanced more naturally, giving his tone more warmth, and with a fuller, more open orchestral sound. The Chung remains an excellent choice if you want an urgent, volatile reading at excitingly fast speeds with much individual magic. It has a generous coupling too in the Tchaikovsky Concerto. But Lin's performance is one of bigger contrasts between bravura and lyrical relaxation, wonderfully poetic as well as exciting and regularly illuminated by touches of spontaneous magic. In the Saint-Saens Perlman (on DG) may be unmatchable in the sheer command of his virtuosity, but as I said last June, I certainly prefer Lin's gentler, more poetic view, and now in CD the advantage in sound quality is all the more apparent.'