At our local library's used book sale I purchased, inter alia, a sealed CD said to contain Christopher Rouse's Symphony No. 1 and another work of his called Phantasmata, all performed by the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra w/ David Zinman conducting (Elektra Nonesuch 9 79230-2). The CD itself indicated it bore the same contents. It and the package, listed four tracks, one for the Symphony, w/ a timing of 26:58 and three for the Phantasmata, w/ a total running time of 19:30. I'd never heard the works before, but I've seen Rouse discussed on some of the Internet lists I read and I figured I could afford to risk the three bucks they were asking for the disc in the interest of making a possible discovery. The CD display indicated one track only, and what I heard was a seamless, highly repetitive work sounding to this unsophisticated ear like an annoying cross between New Age and minimalism, that seemed never to end and indeed, checking the playing time, I found that, rather than a total of 46:28, the darn thing had played for over 78 minutes! I realize that readers here won't be able to identify the pig I purchased in the poke unless the descriptions on disk and package were wrong, and the two works are indeed quite similar sounding and running to a total playing time almost half again as long as indicated. But if the recorded works' identification, rather than their description was in error, what do Rouse's Symphony No. 1 and his Phantasmata sound like? I'm now listening to a CD of Ole Schmidt's *Jeanne d'Arc* w/ the composer conducting the Aalborg Symphony Orchestra (all of a sudden I feel like a shot of Akvavit!) w/ Nina Pavlovski doing an enchanting vocalise and Erling Moldrup playing guitar (dacapo 8.224112) that I'd purchased at the same sale. It was composed for Dreyer's silent film *The Passion of Joan of Arc* (1927) and has been condensed from its contemplated running time of 82 minutes to 58:28 and, from what I'm hearing, I'd like to hear the full version. Walter Meyer