Barbirolli: Haydn Syms 83 "Hen" & 96 "Miracle" - HMV ALP 1038, beautiful copy

Jacket: EX  /  Vinyl: NM  /  English pressing This superb LP – a beautiful collector's copy – from His Master's Voice (ALP 1038, English EMI pressing, red/gold semi-circle label, mono) features Sir John Barbirolli and the Hallé Orchestra in magnificent performances of Haydn's Symphonies No. 83 in G minor "The Hen" and No. 96 in D Major "Miracle", the former recorded at Kingsway Hall, London in December 1949, and the latter set down at the Free Trade Hall, Manchester, in November 1952. Of Dutton Laboratories' CD re-issue of these performances, the outstanding critic Jonathan Woolf wrote for MusicWeb-International: "This isn't a new reissue. Barbirolli completists will recognise this as a previous Dutton release on CDSJB1003 and now revamped in their CDBP line without alteration. So we still have the trio of Haydn symphony recordings made between 1949 and 1953, the last of which – No.88 – was never issued and thus is a more than welcome survivor. "Barbirolli was a Haydn conductor of long