Ronald Grames named this one to his "Want List" (top five) for 2013 in the Nov./Dec. Fanfare, right up there with albums of Berlioz, Monteverdi, and Tchaikovsky. His comment, however, seemed curiously ambivalent:


My last choice is particularly personal, as the music of Hungarian expatriate Eugene Zádor is not really essential listening. He left war-clouded Europe in 1939 and settled, as so many did, in Hollywood. He was a prolific composer, but he made his living as an orchestrator of others’ sketches, in particular those of fellow Hungarian Miklós Rózsa, who specified Zádor in his contracts. A stormy night and an empty house somehow made the perfect backdrop for these slight but evocative and often wistful works, many with a vestigial Hungarian flavor, and the CD ended up on my short list. Zádor, who seldom got screen credit, deserves this at least.


Raymond Tuttle's favorable  review (July/Aug.) sounded a similar note:

Zádor gives us good examples of music that is difficult to describe or classify because it sounds like music composed by so many other composers. Some of it even sounds Hungarian, although not as much as you might guess. Note that none of this is intended as adverse criticism. I truly enjoyed the music on this CD, as it veered from style to style. Great stuff, this, for a “guess the composer” quiz. . . . One might say these performances are always right on track. If you like Rózsa, in all his musical incarnations, I think this CD will give you a lot of pleasure. I know it did that for me.
For myself, I especially enjoy the melancholy lyricism of the Elegie.