I read hundreds of reviews, most of them fine, some not so. Every so often a gem surfaces, to be enjoyed, then forgotten. So, I will render temporary inobscurity to part of a review by one of my favorite critics, Mark Lehman, in the Nov/Dec American Record Guide. Writing of the first movement of Otto Klemperer's Symphony no. 1, Lehman remarks: "[it] is a sort of rondo with attention-deficit disorder that shimmies, lurches, and lumbers along, reiterating a jaunty, naive main tune with the clown-like quality of being both amusing and annoying. ... [O]dd dissonances poke up painfully like springs from a worn-out couch." Thankfully, only we and not Klemperer get to savor the images! Jeff Dunn [log in to unmask]