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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,...

This record is up against some formidable competition. Britten's Piano Concerto was brilliantly recorded by Richter with Britten for Decca, as detailed above, and if the new version has, in sheer sound, a rather greater depth and range, there is nothing unsatisfactory about the older Maltings...

The 70-year-old Günter Wand has a reputation as a Bruckner conductor 0! integrity and vigour. Certainly, his performance of the First Symphony, rough-hewn and spontaneously eloquent, is often very exciting. Unusually among conductors on record, Wand uses the 1890-1 Vienna revision rather than...

A record of anything played by Arthur Grumiaux is something one always receives for review with the anticipation of great pleasure; for, as it is hardly necessary to say by now, he is an artist of the greatest integrity whose superb technique is always completely at the service of the music. This...

There is an intriguingly objective quality about Elliott Carter's music, the invention seeming to arise out of his seeking, and finding, new ways of organizing pitch, rhythm, texture. This leads in all his major works to innovations in form, in the relationship between tempos, and hence in...

Record 1—Piano Concerto No. 1 in E minor, Op. 11 (from 139383, 1/68). Piano Sonata No. 2 in B flat minor, Op. 35 (2530 530, 6/75). Record 2—Concerto No 2 in F minor, Op. 21t (2531 042, 11/78). Sonata No. 3 in B minor, Op. 58 (139317, 5/68). Record 3—Preludes, Op. 28. Prelude in C sharp...