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To judge by its presentation, in a doublefold album with several pages of photographs and hi-lingual notes, this disc seems designed as a follow-up to Philips's premiere recording of the Third Concerto (6500 175, 12/71), and, with the spotlight fixed so firmly on the soloist, it may appear odd to...

Felicja Blumental (piano), *Salzburg Symphony Orchestra conducted by Theodore Guschlbauer, f Torino Orchestra conducted by Alberto Zedda. Turnabout TV34284 (99p).

The appearance of this record completes the cycle of Rimsky-Korsakov's three symphonies available on record. It is good to be able to welcome it. The Third Symphony (1873, revised 1884) would seem to be Rirnsky's latest and most considerable piece of abstract symphonic writing.

The two rival versions that I have listed are outstanding, each in its way; Munch the more idiomatic and at bargain price, Mehta with one of Decca's searingly brilliant, maybe larger than life, recordings from Los Angeles. But Fremaux with the orchestra which he has so richly transformed provides...