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Both the comparative versions listed above are very good and can still be safely recommended, especially to the real Reger enthusiast, since each contains a comparative rarity as fill-up: Sir Colin Davis's account of the Hiller Variations (on Orfeo) is coupled with Reger's Eine Ballettsuite, Op....

RI MSKY-KORSAKOV. Scheherazade, Op.35b. bRodney Friend (vn); London Philharmonic Orchestra / 'David Lloyd-Jones, bBernard Haitink. Philips Silverline 0 CI 420 898-4PSL; a) 420 898-2PSL (60 minutes: ADD). Item marked a from 6580 053 (6/72), b6500 410 (1/74).

It is good to find Jdrvi taking up Schmidt's symphonies with the Chicago Symphony, though the second of them is an unexpected choice with which to start. It lacks the grandeur of the superb Fourth, a work which ought to feature in repertories much more often than it does; and I think its...

We know from his earlier CBS cycle with the New York Philharmonic made in the 1960s (nla) that Leonard Bernstein is a great Sibelius interpreter: his Fifth was one of the finest of its day and his Seventh hardly less impressive. However, neither of these performances with the Vienna Philharmonic...

The darling of the Promenaders during the 1960s, Sargent produced relatively few records by the side of Beecham, Barbirolli or Boult. I possess the First Symphony, albeit in its mono form (nla) with Karsh's famous photograph on its cover, so that comparison here is inevitably to the advantage of...

KA66338; CD CDA66338 (58 minutes: DDD). D major; B minor; G major; D minor; A minor/ major; B flat major