Richard Brody ponders the novelist's magnificently tasteful collection. Notable on his LP shelves: Berg's Wozzeck, Britten's Death in Venice, Tippett's The Knot Garden and A Child of Our Time, and the Nielsen concertos, alongside the expected avalanche of Ellington. Mark Stryker is reminded of a famous Ellison line: "Anyone who listens to a Beethoven quartet or symphony and can't hear soul is in trouble."