"Given the exoticism of the subject, there is a lot of Salome in the music, especially in the dances ... Bollon and the Halle orchestra make a good job of music which Sinopoli and the Dresdeners play even better - but such things are relative and I suggest that no one encountering this recording without foreknowledge of the Sinopoli would be disappointed - except, perhaps, by the occasional longueur in the music itself"