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By FELIX APRAHAMIAM . DENIS ARNOLD . ALAN BLYTH . JOAN CHISSELL DERYCK COOKE . ROGER FISKE . EDWARD GREENFIELD . MAX HARRISON TREVOR HARVEY . ANDREW LAMB . ROBERT LAYTON . WILLIAM MANN MALCOLM MACDONALD . JERROLD MOORE . DAVID MURRAY . JEREMY NOBLE RICHARD OSBORNE . STEPHEN PLAISTOW . ANDREW...

ORCHESTRAL

Ten years ago George Malcolm did not take the quicker movements quite so quickly, and he favoured more 16-foot tone and rather more of those crescendos and diminuendos that modern pedals make possible. The latter are still in evidence now and again, for instance in the first movement solos of the...

These symphonies, it would seem, come from Johann Christian Bach's last years and include some borrowed material: the finale of No. 2 is from Boccherini, the Andante of No. 3 comes from Gluck's opera, Armide and another movement from one of Bach's own Sinfonia concertante. As SS remarked in his...

This is a very intelligent and beautifully played performance by Eschenbach. The intelligence, searching to get the utmost out of every passage, occasionally leads to slight mannerisms—and to more than a slight one from bar 508 of the first movement, where the turn at the end of the trill takes...

SCHUBERT. Symphony No. 8 in B minor, D759, "Unfinished". Marlboro Festival Orchestra conducted by Pablo Casals. CBS 73270 )L2-45).