SYMPHONIC, ETC.

Other February records:

William Walton: Concerto for Violin and Orchestra (Jascha Heifetz, with Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra conducted by Eugene Goossens; Victor; 6 sides). Fine first recording of a pulsing score. Lanky Composer Walton wrote it for Heifetz in 1939, but the composer, a British ambulance driver, never heard his work out loud until this recording was sent to England by Clipper.

Chopin: Fifteen Waltzes (Alexander Brailowsky, pianist; Victor; 14 sides). Russian-born Brailowsky, who has given marathon performances of every note of Chopin's 169 pieces, plays these nervous, undanceable dances with great dash and glitter.

Schumann: Andante and Variations (Ethel Bartlett and Rae Robertson, duo-pianists; Columbia; 3 sides). An able team (married) rambles through a Victorian parlor piece.

Schumann: Dichterliebe (Poet's Love) (Lotte Lehmann, soprano, and Bruno Walter, pianist; Columbia; 8 sides). Two fine musicians in their first recorded collaboration. But Mme. Lehmann's voice, often breathy, sounds queer in these songs of strictly masculine love.

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