DVORAK: Symphony No. 9. STRAVINSKY: “Firebird” Suite.

Kazuhito Yamashita, guitar. RCA Victor 7929-2-RC (compact disc). Like Yamashita’s recordings of “Pictures at an Exhibition” and “Scheherazade,” this recording is more stunt than esthetic experience, but what a stunt! He searches far and wide for timbrel variety to parallel the orchestral scoring, creating some novel effects along the way, and makes few concessions in tempo or texture. The results are astonishing and even exhilarating indulgences for guitar aficionados, frantic messes for admirers of the originals.