Jascha Horenstein was a fine Brucknerian. His 1928 Berlin Philharmonic recording of the Seventh Symphony was a gramophone trail-blazer that still sounds well. This live 1963 Cheltenham Festival Bruckner Third, which uses the second of the three editions (1877, ed Oeser), typifies his way of doing things. Individual episodes, carefully shaped and considered, are built into a meticulously crafted whole. As always with Horenstein, textures are exceptionally clear, ensuring that the lights do eventually go up on what seems at first to be a somewhat dim and distant mono recording. The BBC Northern Orchestra is adequate to the task, no more. Neither the tuning nor the ensemble is all it might be and a mix-up among the trumpets pretty well wrecks the symphony’s peroration.

The addition of Busoni’s Tanzwalzer provides a measure of compensation. Busoni wrote the sequence – an introduction, four waltzes and a coda – in autumn 1920 as a skittish albeit affectionate tribute to Johann Strauss. (He later incorporated the music into the Parma scene of his unfinished opera Doktor Faust.) The performance is a delight. You don’t have to know that Horenstein was part of Busoni’s circle in Berlin in the early 1920s to sense that this is the real McCoy.