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There is nothing very complex technically about Prokofiev's music, but the problems of style it poses are none the less difficult for all that. Somehow both aspects of his puzzling musical personality have to be

One of my treasured 78s was an elegant, silvery, classical performance of Rameau's Castor et Pollux by Wolff and the Lamoureux Orchestra. Up till now, the only LP of Rameau's ballet music was the Colombo recording of Suites 1 and 2 from Platie, on Oiseau-Lyre. Now the same company give us an...

Boston Prom. Orch., Fiedler (7/57) (9/58) (R)RD27077 Minneapolis SO., Dorati (7/59) MMA11038 Graduation Ball—Stereo:

Even in its stereo version this recording is not nearly as vivid as the much earlier one on the same label with the same orchestra under Kletzki, let alone the particularly brilliant recording given to Monteux on R.C.A. But technical considerations need not weigh too heavily if Karajan's rather...

This is not a virtuoso performance; you can hear this at once in the scherzo and the finale, both of which seem to me to lack the sheer rhythmic élan that some conductors and orchestras can give them. Altogether the rhythms of this performance are a little sluggish, though Kubelik makes a point...