A wonderful recording to be sure. I am doing a comparison tonight between the TP release and The Super Analogue Disc LP version. As good as the LP is played back on my Walker tt via the Bluelectric Magic Diamond cart, the resolution, soundstage and large dynamic swings of the tape have it all over the LP version I have. Granted the LP is a reissue of the London/Decca recording, it still makes a very fine showing of itself. With Kenneth Wilkinson at the controls, it couldn't be anything else.
The tape fleshes out nuance and detail in the music - like the castinets in the first half of the work that you can point to their exact location in the far back right corner of the stage. The string work that at times almost like a Baroque era ensemble, playing in a small room, to suddenly bloom into the large venue in which this was recorded. Bass lines have impact, but they have body as well. The drum whacks start and stop with no overhang or boominess. The bells (or celeste), I'm not sure which it is, sparkle with life and air.
A winner, any way you slice it...