"The National Youth Orchestra of Spain serves up first-rate performances of three relative rarities. Granted, most listeners prefer Ravel's more elegantly Parisian Pictures; but it's hard to resist the hedonistic pull of Stokowski's more spectacularly Vegas alternative…. Serebrier's is an arresting score, moving from a vigorous opening Presto with clear debts to Music for Strings, Percussion, and Celesta on to three darker and more enigmatic movements of striking—sometimes nearly Mahlerian—emotional depth. The spare landscape of the second movement, which grows from a long wandering line for cellos alone, is especially haunting."—Fanfare