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The care with which this performance has been prepared appears in every step of its history. When the idea of playing the Elgar Second Symphony was proposed as a follow-up to the Solti Elgar First Symphony, Sir Georg hesitated. Learning a big score of such complexity from the very beginning...

Produced with a grant from business to bring its price into the range of economy, this record has been clearly designed to appeal to a broad public. Yet is should appeal equally to the most sophisticated and dedicted Elgarian. Norman Del Mar's preparation for the recording included a study of the...

This record rightly emphasises the international flavour of the CBS contribution to recorded music. None of the conductors is British except for the late Sir Thomas, who was perhaps the most international of them all. And more than half of the music is played by American orchestras. International...

These performances are now nearly twenty years old, but they've worn remarkably well. Although by no means lacking in strength or grandeur—Curzon can thunder out the end of the Rachmaninov as rhetorically as anyone—they are basically lyrical readings, with uncommon sensitivity of feeling and...

Prague Symphony Orchestra conducted by Jindfich Bohan, item marked • with Petr Toper- czar (piano). Vox STGBY677 (41.99).