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Decca The Classic Sound g CD 448 581-2DCS (73 minutes: ADD). Item marked a from LXT5255/6 (1/57), b5XL2074/5 (6/59).

Martina Double Concerto for Two String Orchestras, Piano and Timpania. Laura O'Gorman (pf); aTibor Herczeg (perc); Ensemble XXI Moscow / Lygia O'Riordan.

Ryoanji (1985) is unusual in that it brings together all of Cage's oriental disengagements in a work which responds to a specific place — the famous Zen garden at the Ryoan Temple in Kyoto, Japan. The garden consists of a flat, raked white gravel foundation punctuated by occasional outcrops of...

RCA Victor Red Seal 0 0 09026 68378-2 (71 minutes: ADD). Recorded at a performance in the Grand Hall of the Moscow Conservatory on March 27th, 1984. From Olympia OCD149 (9/89).

Can these really be the same Symphonic Sketches to which I reacted in such lukewarm fashion when reviewing Neeme Jarvi's Chandos recording last April? In the immensely sympathetic hands of Jose Serebrier and the Czech (formerly Brno) State Philharmonic, Chadwick's orchestral set now sounds...

RCA Victor Classical Navigator 0 74321 24217-2 (71 minutes: ADD/DDD). Item marked a recorded at a performance in the Royal Albert Hall, London on May 13th, 1985 and from RL70748, bSB6656 (4/66), cRB16025 (10/57).

Granados's Danzas espatiolas have been arranged, collectively and individually, for one or more guitars and for many other media. That last category now includes these arrangements of the complete set for guitar and orchestra by the Slovak musi cian, Peter Breiner, who conducts them here. For the...