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I can't summon up any enthusiasm for this. I suppose any record collector must by now be familiar with the experience of a performance from which all the spontaneity and interpretative presence appear to have been drained off, but really these accounts of three Beethoven sonatas by

No.1 in G minor, Op. 23; No.2 in F major, Op. 38; No. 3 in A flat major, Op. 47; No. 4 in F minor, Op. 52.

Chapelle de Guillaume Tell; An lac de Wallenstadt; Pastorale; An bord dune source; Eglogue; Orage; Vallée dObecmann; Le mal du pays; Lea cinches de Gentve.

Nuages gris, G.199. La lugubre gondola No. 1, G.200. Richard Wagner—Venezia, G.201. Vier kieine KlavierstOcke, G.102. Elegy No. 2, G.107. Schiaflos, Frage und Antwort, G.203. DemAnden ken PetOfis, G.195. Unstern, G.208.

RACHMANINOV. Piano Works. Gary Graffnian (piano). CBS © BRG72 136 (12 in., 32s. 3d. plus 5s. 3d. P.T.).