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Not, however, Nos. i and 2 from any one numbering system : that would be making life altogether too easy. No. t, as here recorded, is No. z of the orchestral set arranged by Liszt and his pupil Doppler (or more probably by Doppler with some backseat driving from Liszt) ; and it is also No. 14 of...

Oiseau-Lyre's first disc of Mozart symphonies (reviewed last month) omitted three very early efforts (and included two spurious works) and took the young prodigy down to his twelfth year. This second disc starts with him still twelve and covers an eighteen-month span. (He'll grow up very slowly...

These are both worthy performances ; but is there now room on the market for anything less than first-rate versions of " Eine kleine "and the G minor Symphony? With Beecham to give us the G minor Symphony (backed by the E flat) and, say, Karajan and the Philharmonia in the Serenade, the new...

Bachauer, New London Orch., Sherman (11/54) (H)DLP1006 Casadesus, Orch., Szell (8/55) ABL3060 Seemann, Berlin P.O., Lehmann (10/55) DGM18143

Badura-Skoda, V.S.O., Prohaska (2/54) WLP5097 Casadesus, New York SO., Barbirollt (2/54) 33C1028 Matthews, Philharmonia, Schwarz (10/54) 33S1032 Haebler, Vienna Pro Musica, Hollreiser (3/55) PL8710