Both the overture From the Scottish Highlands and the Sword Dance (from Lamond's only opera, Love in the Scottish Highlands) have all of the distinctive touches that d'Albert's music lacks, while remaining firmly within the same stylistic orbit. As with most everything that they have done for Hyperion, Martyn Brabbins and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra turn in very sympathetic performances, played with vigor, confidence, soul, and in the delightful Sword Dance, bravura. Warm and clear recorded sound offers the final flourish on a release destined to please collectors of well-made late-Romantic marginalia.

"Loving performances from Martyn Brabbins and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, who put all five works across with a high electric charge. The recorded sound reproduces the orchestral textures with admirable clarity. The booklet note—supplied, as elsewhere in this series, by John Purser—is a model of lightly borne learning. Very warmly recommended."-- Martin Anderson, FANFARE