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This is a marvellous performance of the symphony : Boult manages to combine breadth and dignity with a determination that allows no flagging in either slow movement or finale, and the orchestral players ensure that these qualities are further combined with very substantial beauty of tone....

Stern, N.Y. SO., Kurtz (4/53) 33C1013 "Once is enough" has been the almost unanimous decision of non-executant composers of violin concertos, since the nineteenth century put so much massiveness and such endless problems of balance into the form. But in the case of Bruch it has instead been the...

Bruckner's Ninth, the culmination of his symphonic writing, consists of two great tragic movements flanking a scherzo of considerable originality and brilliance. The vast Adagio with which it ends was envisaged as the composer's farewell to life, which helps to explain its elegiac profundity and...

Pomp will out ; and even in Italy Elgar found circumstance enough for a clangour of brass, by allowing the contemplation of Roman ruins to lead him to remember history. But in the breadth of this portrait of Ancient Rome is the only point at which George Weldon's Columbia record, good as it...