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BRAHMS. Piano Concerto No. 2 in B flat major, Op. 83. GyOrgy Sandor (piano), South West German Radio Orchestra, Baden-Baden conducted by Rolf Reinhardt. Vox QGBY10990 (12 in., 18s. 10-i-d. plus 6s. P.T.) 0 STGBY510990 (12 in., 20s. 9d. plus 6s. 9d. P.T.).

This recording was made, I imagine, at two entirely separate sessions. The first two movements have the intensity of a great occasion. This is playing of a warmth and vitality such as Walter drew from the Vienna Philharm—iic before the war. There is the inevitability, the rightness about this...

The Brahms Second was the symphony which in the days of 78s I was always wanting Walter to record. The H.M.V. catalogue seemed incomplete without it when the other three symphonies were there, and one tried to imagine how Walter would take this passage or that. Let me say at once that this new...