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At long last alleluias are in order. EMI have finally got round to reissuing on CD the finest— nay, the only wholly acceptable—account of Bruckner's Sixth Symphony on record. Quite why this terse, searching and exhilarating symphony has so eluded interpreters is difficult to establish;...

Funeral March'. Severn Suite, Op. 87'. The Light of Life, Op. 29—Meditation (with Noel Raws thorne, org)b Caractacus, Op. 35—Woodland

The main works here are, of course, the Images and Jeux, and I suspect it will perhaps be above all for that latter masterpiece, one that is difficult to balance and shape into the necessary dazzling whole, that many collectors already possessing other versions will wish to invest in this new...

Violin Concerto. Berceuse, Op. 16. Elegie, Op. 24b. Masques et bergamasques, Op. 112—Overture. Shylock, Op. 57—Nocturne. Pelleas et Melisande—suite, Op. 80.

Ignore the opus numbers: Franck abandoned his already quite extensive catalogue and began again at Op. 1 about six years after these pieces were written. They are his juvenilia, dating from before his fifteenth birthday, and they contain not a single foretaste of his mature style, save an already...

Rhapsody in Blue'. An American in Paris. Cuban Overture. PORGY AND BESS—Symphonic Picture (arr. Russell Bennett).