Music: New Records, Mar. 7, 1955

When a record company gets as old as Victor (57 years), its attics become loaded with faded treasures. Victor saw no sense in letting them turn to dust; on the other hand, it had to use discretion, or some old relatives and friends might be offended. Result: two record series on the company's low-priced Camden label, with none of the famed performers identified. The records are dubbings from Victor's pre-LP catalogue, with their dark-hued old sounds partly hi-fizzed through electronic tinkering. The first series contains all of Tchaikovsky's six Symphonies performed by such...

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