“The grand Dutch tradition of Mahler interpretation is evidently continuing in the work of Hans Vonk, who conducted the St. Louis Symphony at Carnegie Hall in a resplendent account of the composer’s Third Symphony. He conducted a performance of huge dynamic range and sometimes of startling changes in tempo and color, but his choices were dictated less by urgent expressive needs than by a pleasure in the music and a justified pride in how his orchestra can play it...The finale was nobly sustained, intimately modelled and at time exquisitely fine – and when the brass chorale arrived to bring in the close, the last melody sounded, gentle and sure, like the national anthem of Heaven.” (The New York Times, October 1999)