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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...

No one, I imagine, is likely to sit down and listen to the ten discs of Mozart's dance music straight off; not even a critic. Nor is anybody, alas, likely to dance to them. But in playing these through one by one, as they have appeared—generally a band or two at a time—I have not only been...

Karelia, Overture, Op. 10. The Bard—Tone Poem, Op. 64. Scenes historiques—Suite No. 1, Op. 25, No. 3, "Festivo". King Christian H—Suite.

This is the final record in Markevich's complete cycle with the LSO of the Tchaikovsky symphonies (Manfred included), and I had confidently hoped it would solve the awkward problem of making a firm recommendation. Of the four existing versions available, Giulini's and Previn's are the more...