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WIENIAWSKI. Polonaise de Concert, Op. 4. ScherzoTarantelle, Op. 16 (orch. Gilson). Glenn Dicterow (violin). All items with Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Zubin Mehta. Decca SX L6737 (£3.25).

Klemperer's serious (but far from severe) handling of this music is so often unobtrusively but exactly right and reveals so many oftenobscured dimensions that it would be churlish (and missing all points save the most obvious) to complain of a Scherzo that is somewhat less swift than the moone's...

Bernard Herrmann wrote his Symphony in 1941, the year when the United States entered the second world war, and as Christopher Palmer notes in his helpful sleeve-note, it reflects the spirit of the time. It is, as Palmer says, a Sibelian work, but that influence provides only a part of the...

Very likely this is the best complete set of the Mozart Horn Concertos in the catalogue; for Alan Civil and the orchestra both play beautifully, the cadenzas are very apt, and the recording is both well-toned and well balanced. Yet the great basic irritation of 1961 is now repeated in 1976; the...

In 1779 Mozart's interest in theatrical music, too long suppressed, found an outlet when a dramatic troupe visited Salzburg. Its head, Johann BOhm, commissioned him to supply some interludes and choruses for Gebler's play Thamos, KOnig von Aegypten. He had in fact set two of the choruses six...

Even if you already have good records of these concertos—perhaps Barenboim in the F major and Brendel in the other—you will want to consider this one. There is very little of Serkin's Mozart in the catalogue at present. He is a great classical pianist, whom we have too few opportunities to...