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BERG Der Weint. Boston Symphony Orchestra conducted by Erich Leins- dorf. Item marked 1. with Phyllis Curtin (soprano). RCA-Victor

MOZART. COMPLETE DANCES AND MARCHES—Volume 7. Vienna Mozart Ensemble conducted by Willi Bos- kovsky. Decca Q LXT6246 0 SXL6246 (12 in., 32s. 3d. plus 5s. 9d. PT).

There is nothing particularly simple about the Sixth Symphony in spite of its subtitle. Coming immediately after the Wind Quintet, of which there is a fine new recording for review next month, Nielsen had undoubtedly intended a lyrical and uncomplicated utterance rather than a largelimbed...

When I heard the tremendously grand and even dramatic way Klemperer conducts the symphony's opening bars I did wonder if this approach wasn't going to be too unaffectionate and unsmiling for Schumann. I need not have worried. Already by the latter part of the introduction the playing is tender,...