Music: May Records

Some phonograph records are musical events. Each month TIME will note the noteworthy:*

Symphonic:

Stravinsky's Sacre du Printemps by Leopold Stokowski and the Philadelphia Orchestra (Victor, $8)—A particularly relevant recording of the ballet music recently given its first U. S. stage production (TIME, April 28). Stokowski's disc version preserves much of the naked intensity of the original, reveals ais complete mastery of the crazy, conflicting rhythms.

Bach's Suite No. 3 in D by Désiré Defauw and the Orchestra of the Brussels Royal Conservatory (Columbia, $6)—A vigorous, forthright reading of Bach's most popular...