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Unvarnished Bartok from source. Kossuth is probably the real selling-point here; it also happens to be the roughest and readiest of these performances, which is a pity. This, of course, was young BartOk's first major orchestral outing—and how. Strauss's Zarathustra had fired him, a piano...

Level-headed, unfussy conducting, backed by sophisticated orchestral playing and engineering. However, there's most assuredly more to these masterpieces than Marriner and his Academy deliver here. Low on incident and personable charm, this Pastoral is a curiously tepid, anodyne affair, with a...

These are illustrious performances and make a splendid coupling at mid-price. EMI planned for a long time to assemble this starry line-up of soloists, conductor and orchestra for Beethoven's Triple Concerto, and the artists do not disappoint, bringing sweetness as well as strength to a work which...

When Sir Harrison Birtwistle's opera Gawain was first performed at Covent Garden in 1991 there was some critical talk to the effect that the broad brush-strokes necessary for such a big house had meant the loss of that incisiveness and opentextured concision so highly valued in his earlier works.

BOCCHERINI. CELLO CONCERTOS. Anner Bylsma (ye); Concerto Amsterdam / Jaap Schröder. Teldec Das Alte Werke B CD 903 I77624-2 (61 minutes: ADD). Items marked a from 5AWT9473 (4/67), bSAwT9529 (3/70). No.4 in C, G477a; No. 6 in D, G479a; No. 7 in G, G480b; No. 8 in C, G48 Ia.