Contents

There is no more valuable service the gramophone industry can perform than to make available a substantial spread of a living composer's work. Would that commercial pressures allowed such ventures to be possible more often. Collected on these two records are seven of Penderecki's compositions for...

The two Prokoflev Violin Concertos make an obvious coupling and this is the only bargain version of them so paired. Ricci plays with his customary virtuosity though he is well forward and in the First Concerto occasionally masks some of the orchestral detail. He conveys little generosity of tone...

The two Ravel concertos make an obvious and attractive coupling. As the present performances are making their third appearance iiq the catalogue having migrated from Columbia via the World Record Club (ST871, 8/69), they call for little detailed comment. Samson François's playing is certainly...

The F major Concerto is a first recording. The G minor has been recorded once before (Polydor 66445-7 a 78 rpm recording), but it has had to wait nearly half-a-century for a second appearance. So if you contemplate adding it to your library, I should be much inclined to close with the present...

This originally appeared as part of a box including all Tchaikovsky's music for piano and orchestra. Now that the First Concerto appears separately it naturally faces stiffer competition: the catalogue includes about two dozen versions of the B flat minor ranging from the classic...

This reissue, taken from DG's Tchaikovsky cycle in the "Symphony Edition" series, provides by far the most refined recording of any current version of the Polish Symphony, warmly reverberant but well-enough defined in detail. But as RL said in his original review of the complete set, the...