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The fashion seems very much to have turned away from single-record versions of the Ninth in favour of multi-sided versions involving no side-break in the slow movement. And what fine new sets they have been, with B6hm's new recording in his complete cycle (DGG 2720 045, 11/72) as well as the...

Gould plays with his usual rather extreme brilliance, yet I find him considerably less stimulating here than in the Bach Partitas reviewed on page 1530. Frankly, I find the music a great deal less compelling too, and despite his exact focus on every pianistic detail I wonder if Gould does also,...

In any assessment of this latest set of Brandenburgs, much will depend on taste in harpsichord tone. I confess I find the biting, jangling sound of Gustav Leonhardt's instrument distracting, cutting as it does through every texture, standing out even where it should be moulded in with the...