It is only 22.33 min in length but the disc is full-price. If it is the Musgrave you are after you have no alternative and provided you do not baulk at the price you will be well satisfied. The coupling is Elgar's first symphony and it is not the only recording of this work in the marketplace. Again the recording is excellent and the playing immaculate. My grouse is with the interpretation of tempi by Bramwell Tovey.
All speeds are slow or sound slow even when the movement takes no longer than other performances.
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