Simply turn to the recent recording with violinist Laurent Korcia, clarinetist Michel Portal, and pianist Jean-Efflam Bavouzet, and listen to the last movement. All of a sudden, the violin's double-stops come alive with bluesy slides and inflections, the clarinet asserts itself with a wide variety of vibrato and accented attacks, and the piano runs don't get buried in loud tuttis. Here's all the intimate give and take and spontaneous repartée of the classic premiere recording with Joseph Szigeti, Benny Goodman, and the composer at the piano, but in modern sound. That said, I have no doubt that connoisseurs of world-class instrumental marksmanship will embrace Wood and company's "über-Bártók" for what it is, and will crank up their home theater systems accordingly.

--Jed Distler, ClassicsToday.com