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TAKEMITSU. November Steps. Concert- gebouw Orchestra conducted by Bernard Haitink. Philips 6500 086 (L2.40). Item marked * recorded at a public performance in the Concertgebouw, Amsterdam in February 1969.

Now that Bernstein's version of the Fifth Symphony is deleted, this new issue is the only full-price alternative to Horenstein's account on Unicorn. Kletzki is fully at home in the Scandinavian repertory: he has recorded some Sibelius, he gave the premiere of Holmboe's Eighth Symphony in the...

This is a valuable supplement to Rozhdestvensky's cycle of Prokofiev symphonies on Melodiya (now lacking only the Fifth). The brief, biting cantata Seven, They Are Seven is new to the catalogue; the portraits from the ballet The Gambler have not appeared for sixteen years; and we badly need a...

When Mehta and the Los Angeles Orchestra have made such rich, ripe records lately (notably of Richard Strauss) it is disappointing to find them off form in Ravel. I have rarely if ever known a less dynamic performance of the Daphnis et Chloe Suite. The actual playing is polished enough, but it is...