Mallwitz and her orchestra play every note with meaning.

Die sieben Todsünden (‘The Seven Deadly Sins’) is brought off with comparable deftness and élan...This Weill collection, polished but never slick, merits the very strongest recommendation.

As fine as these performances [of the symphonies] are, the highlight of the album has to be a vivid, flamboyant account of another Brechtian partnership: The Seven Deadly Sins...In the central role is Katharine Mehrling, and to say that she presents a bravura performance is something of an understatement: from her very first entry in the Prologue she grabs the part with both hands and refuses to let go.

On the evidence of their first recording with Mallwitz for Deutsche Grammophon, in music by a composer with impeccable Berlin connections, there’s already a good rapport between the conductor and her players...The symphonies are muscular and intense, the theatre piece pungent and sardonic; it’s an impressive debut disc.