Penny leans to mystery and an ethereal sound, Hickox is broad, lyrical
and dramatic, and Handley is probably the most straightforward and
bracing (though I don't like his Sixth).  There is also Arnold himself
in a couple of them (quite dramatic) and Groves in the Second is pretty
straightforward.  Bostock has an interesting Germanic (in the Straussian
wind symphony sense) approach to the Fifth.

Roger Hecht <[log in to unmask]>