“The Beethoven work has been recorded many times down through the years, to the point of being overly familiar, but in the hands of conductor Erich Kunzel and the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra it becomes a true work of art. The orchestra plays brilliantly, and the conductor has taken the extra time to have the same type of cannons and muskets firing as originally scored by Beethoven, and exactly where the composer scored them.” —Palladium-TImes