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Carlos Paita's 'turquoise' digital recording with his own Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra (see "Here and There", August, page 233) essays a symphony that is notoriously difficult to bring off on record—Beethoven's Fifth. It is a work that depends very much on pacing and discipline and neither...

Giulini's account of the Fifth Symphony has great weight and impetus: indeed, I can recall no reading since those of Kleiber and Klemperer in the 1950s which has seemed at once so lofty and alive as this.

Loughran seems most at home here in the First Symphony. His performance is less driven that Solti's on Decca and less bland than Masur's on Philips. Without effacing memories ofToscanini's matchless version (now available as part of RCA mono VL46020, 4/82), it strikes a nice via media between its...

This is one of a series of records featuring Australian artists and using Australian paintings as sleeve designs—in this case, a fine oil by William Piguenit of the gorge ofthe Upper Nepean, a scene that would do well as a backdrop for the "Royal Hunt and Storm" from Les Iroyens. And this, too,...