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If only Bernstein had taken a broader view of the first movement I should have wanted to hail this whole performance as among the finest I have ever heard. Beethoven asks for brio, it's true, but when a conductor takes a speed even fractionally too fast, some passages lose their power and become...

Overtures: Le Roi Lear, Op. 4; Les Francs Juges, Op. 3; Le Carnaval Romain, Op. 9; Waverley, Op. 2b; Le Corsaire, Op. 21.

Bliss wrote his Meditations on a Theme by John Blow in 1955 specially for the City of Birmingham Orchestra. It is a long work (roughly 35 minutes) but fairly easy-going in its illustration of the successive verses of the 23rd Psalm. Thus the introduction with its sheep-bells and pastoral flutes...

Phith., Klemperer (11/62) 33CX1808-9 Q SAX2454-5 Bruckner Symphony No. 7—selected comparison: Columbia SO, Walter (12(63) (D BRG72139-40 0 SBRG72139-40