Of the same recording, the review in American Record Guide was less effusive: "Not my favorite reading, but a good one!" Mike D. Brownell criticized Cooke's playing for allmusic.com, claiming that Cooke "gets carried away musically..." "So filled with rubato is Cooke's interpretation that the usually powerful, forward-moving piece nearly comes to a stand-still on several occasions. Chords are played with a tiresome delay at the bottom half that makes Cooke's playing predictable." In 2012, Fanfare Magazine presented a feature article that detailed many of Cooke's recordings; amongst the reviewers comments: "Not since Bion Tsang and Anton Nel replaced Nancy Green and Frederick Moyer as my favorites in the Brahms cello sonatas (see Fanfare 33:6) have I encountered another recording of these works quite as breathtaking as this new one...," and from the Audio Video Club of America: "I’ve never heard a darker, richer, more passionately conceived cello sound than Cooke cultivates here..." Colleague János Starker offered the following assessments: "Mr. Antony Cooke is an exceptionally gifted cellist and musician. I consider his contributions to the world of music significant."