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Fourth of July. New York Phil- harmonic Orchestra conducted by Leonard Bernstein. Item markedt with Seymour Lipkin (assistant con ductor). CBS BRG72451 0 SBRG 72451 (12 in., 32s. 3d. plus 5s. 9d. PT).

Mozart's early symphonies are a good deal more interesting than their neglect might lead us to presume; in particular, they give a fascinating picture of the impact made by his contemporaries' music on the sensitive, imitatively responsive boy-genius as he travelled around Europe. There are many...

Bohm is a Mozart conductor of great repute: the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra play with the greatest refinement. Why, then, wasn't I more gripped? When I first put the record on, I took it off after a side, thinking that perhaps I was tired or in no mood for Mozart; but I played it again next day...

It was only last January that Decca brought out a version of the early C major Concerto (K246) with Vladimir Ashkenazy as soloist and Kertesz conducting the same orchestra as here, the LSO (Decca mono LXT6259 stereo SXL6259). Ingrid Haebler's performance—sensitive, informed, perfectly...