The Independent 28 July 1995 wrote:

A minute or so spent in the company of Eduard van Beinum's Cockaigne is enough to lift anyone's spirits. The pace is so fast, the playing full of newsreel-style excitement and the conducting as characterful as Beecham's and as bracing as Elgar's own. Just listen to the crisply articulated woodwinds, the sharp-edged attack of the brass or the wistful but never cloying strings.
Van Beinum was the Concertgebouw's most distinguished regular maestro after Mengelberg and before Haitink: a compassionate disciplinarian who could scale Brucknerian heights or bring sunlight to Mendelssohn and Schubert. He even spent two seasons with the LPO, and when you consider that this was by no means the orchestra's best period, his achievement here seems doubly remarkable.
Anthony Pini's account of the Cello Concerto has dignity, strength and natural reserve: the first movement is outgoing and proud; the Scherzo vigorous, if fairly bland; the Adagio quietly confessional; and the finale, with its sudden rushes of melancholy, eloquent beyond words. As to the Wand of Youth, both suites are superbly done and there's some breathtaking virtuosity in "The Wild Bears". The recordings (some from original tapes, others from shellac pressings) are variable. But, that apart, this is an absolute winner.