Contents

Fresh, vigorous performances vividly recorded and played for the most part on reconstructions of eighteenth-century instruments. The conductor, who plays the oboe in the Orchestre de Paris, specialises in both baroque and contemporary music, and he is fully conversant with Handelian style. But...

This coupling follows hot on the heels of Böhm's recent record with the Vienna Philharmonic (DG 2530 343, 4/74). In Symphony No. 89 Dorati conveys a more genuine and spontaneous sense of joy and greater lightness of touch. In all four movements there is every evidence that the players delight in...

Milde, Anton, Lautenbacher, Buck, Wurtembur co, Faerber (12/72) TV34418 Symphony No. 90—selected comparison:

Heard separately, away from the complete Jochum set of the London Symphonies, these two performances prove if anything even more attractive. Jochum's Haydn, urgently high-spirited rather than charming, is irresistible, with toughness combined with wit in the magnificent opening movement of No....

In 1907 the 10-year-old Erich Korngold was taken to play his music to Mahler. He did so from memory; greatly impressed, Mahler recommended him to Schoenberg's teacher Zemlinsky. Three years later the boy had a pantomime produced at the Vienna Court Opera, and overnight he was a celebrity. He was...