Thanks for catching that, Tony – somehow I got my movement order and paragraphs muddled. Decca didn’t change the sequence, especially as, in any case, this is simply a Presto re-issue of the original. That has now been put right in the review and I am glad that in general we agree, despite my mistake – inevitably, that occasionally happens when you write a fair number of reviews, as I do, and I am always gratified when readers are paying so much attention that they notice any errors.
Thanks for the response Ralph - I well remember from my own MW reviewing days what it's like to hammer out review after review and then get pulled up by the ever-vigilant readers ! Re. the Chailly, I wonder if he'd been listening to Barbirolli, who takes a similarly broad view of the first movement but somehow manages to still generate the required tension ? You also mention recorded sound; it's interesting that those Chailly Deccas were held up as SOTA, but the old Barbirolli EMI is far less recessed and to my ears has a more truthful balance.
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