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One does not often welcome having to deal with a delayed stereo version as much as this. Having covered the detailed points in my notice of the mono version last month I have now been able to sit back and—I was going to say--wallow in it. But wallowing implies having one's intelligence shut...

I can't really add anything to my review of the mono version, published last month, beyond saying that the stereo recording is so good that it might conceivably have made me a little more favourably disposed to Silvestri's interpretations. The engineers seem to have found a pretty well ideal...

Leningrad P.O., Mravinsky (12/56) Q DGM18333 Concertgebouw, Kempen (10/54) Q GBL5546 Philharmonia, Silvestri (3/59) 0 ASD261

TCHAIKOVSKY. Symphony No. 4 in F minor, Op. 36. Leningrad Phil- harmonic Orchestra conducted by Eugene Mravinsky. D.G.G. 11) LPM18657: 0 5LPM138657 (12 in., 30s. plus 9s. 9d. P.T.).