Some phonograph records are musical events. Each month TIME will note the noteworthy.*
Symphonic:
Rimsky-Korsakov's Scheherazade by Philippe Gaubert and the Paris Conservatory Orchestra (Columbia, $12)—An excellent recording of the popular picture-music based on the fantastic tales with which Scheherazade supposedly beguiled the Sultan Schahriar over a period of 1,001 nights.
Ravel's Bolero by Serge Koussevitsky and the Boston Symphony (Victor, 2 records, $2 each)—A highly charged reading of the season's symphonic sensation in Paris, Manhattan and Boston. The records, with Satie's placid Gymnopedie on the back of the...