Here is a review of a new recording of music by Rautavaara posted to Amazon.com just this morning. It probably won't appear at that site for another two or three days. I wanted to share my thoughts with the Davelist: Vintage Rautavaara, nicely played This CD has three parts: the piano concerto, the "Autumn Gardens", and a 13 minute conversation between Rautavaara and Vladimir Ashkenazy. The latter, although interesting, is not something I'd want to listen to more than a time or two. So, we are left with a CD containing about 54 minutes of music.Hence, my rating of four stars rather than the five the music and performances themselves deserve. But, what music! If you like the ecstatic Rautavaara, this will suit you. The Piano Concerto, written for Ashkenazy and played and conducted by him, subtitled "Gift of Dreams", never shouts but rises to several points of exultation. "Autumn Gardens" is a three-movement suite, the first two movements played without pause. Almost as a surprise, the third movement, designated "giocoso e leggiero" comes as a brisk, gentle counterpoise to the autumnal mood of what came before. Then it fades into a lovely, stately sarabande, ending nobly, like, as T. S. Eliot wrote, "late roses filled with early snow." The performances and recording are exemplary. Scott Morrison