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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...

Not long before he died in 1959 Heitor Villa-Lobos recorded for HMV in Paris this same group of Bachianas Brasileiras, with a radiant interpretation of the famous No. 5 from Victoria de los Angeles (mono ALP1603, 9/58).

There is little or no mystery in Boulez's vision of Wagner. The complete Parsfa1 from Bayreuth (DG 2720, 034, 11/71) was clear and intense, in its relatively brisk way very refreshing. Though Boulez himself has mellowed a little even since then, the picture is very much the same here. The most...

Beethoven: F'idelio—Overture ( from SAN280-2, 4/71). Brahms' Tragic Overture (C new to UK). Wagner: Tristan und Isolde–Preludes to Acts 1 and 3 ( SLS963, 1/73); Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg-_-Prelude to Act 1 (t SLS957, 10/71).

Wagner: Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg—Prelude to Act 1 (' also available on 73215 8/73). Ravel: Piano Concerto for the left hand (I with Philippe Entremont, piano. From 73070, 3/73). Debussy: Prelude I l'apres-midi dun faune ( 72533, 7/67), Stravinsky: The Firebird—Suite: Internal Dance of...

None of the works here is a masterpiece, but the five of them add up to a very agreeable record. The most remarkable piece, in every way, is Weber's Concertina: cast in one of the free, empirical forms in which he delighted, it does not match the Concertina for clarinet or the piano Konzertstiick...

CHAMBER MUSIC

There have been no new complete sets of these sonatas for some time. For the moment this one has the field to itself; the only other currently listed—not really a set, in fact, because the records are available separately —is a collection of public performances given by Szigeti and Arrau in...