Sir Charles opens with a vigorous account of the Overture, and takes clear delight in touching off the contrasting moods of what are sometimes very brief numbers. Even in such a gentle, unassuming movement as the ''Pastorale'', there is a grace and an originality of phrase to be found by a conductor with the ears to hear it. The longer solos for the dancers, especially that for the ballet's originator, Salvatore Vigano, contain rather more, but this is the lighter Beethoven, and played with an exact judgement of the weight. The Scottish Chamber Orchestra respond enthusiastically, and the recording is fresh and clear.

-- John Warrack, Gramophone [11/1994]