-- Allan Kozinn, The New York Times
reviewing Symphony no 1 and Chichester Psalms, previously reissued as part of DG 457757

Kaddish has somehow meant more to me this time around. The narration is still a hard act to swallow (wisely, Bernstein cut back quite heavily on it for this 1977 revision), but if you can get beyond the more cloying sentiment and dubious melodramatics (gamely negotiated by Michael Wager), then some undeniably terrific music is your reward. That beautiful setting for soprano and boys' choir speaks for itself, but I had quite forgotten about the wonderful Coplandesque melody seemingly materializing from nowhere towards the end of the third movement. The recording, bright and percussive like the early choruses, makes a vivid Impression on CD and we now have an appropriate fill-up in the shape of the second suite from Bernstein's ballet Dybbuk—a strange, spare and sometimes elusive score which one day I'd like to see danced.

-- Edward Seckerson, Gramophone [10/1988]
reviewing the first CD release of Kaddish and Dybbuk Suite no 2, DG 423582