Susskind makes the Polka his own with touches of rubato and unexpected little pauses that separate the introductory notes from the downbeat notes. No one else does it like this. …The St. Louis Symphony is hot, hot, hot – over the top, but in a first-class, tuxedoed manner. © 2025 Fanfare Read complete review
…a superb performance [of Scheherazade], one of the very best I’ve encountered, in top-notch sound to boot. Semkow has this music down pat and just lets Rimsky’s resplendent score flow naturally, while he gives the orchestra its head to luxuriate in the lush orchestration. © 2024 American Record Guide

Jerzy Semkov conducts an interpretation of Rimsky-Korsakov’s Scheherazade that follows the program to the letter, is romantic and pictorial, and all in all is coherent and opulent in sound.
Walter Susskind then conducts a very musical, dance-like and colourful interpretation of orchestral excerpts from Smetana’s The Bartered Bride. © 2024 Pizzicato Read complete review
Semkow…sculpts a shapely performance, affectionate without losing pictorial or dramatic elements… No less fine are the Overture & Dances from Smetana’s opera, Prague-born Walter Susskind…leading idiomatic and spontaneous accounts… © 2024 Colin’s Column Read complete review