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FEATURED MARCH 1984 We revisit an article by John Warrack on three great English composers, Elgar, Holst and Delius, from March 1984 For anyone whose first records went round 78 times a minutes and broke when you dropped them, Elgar, Holst and Delius were, if not quite modern music, the great English masters of the immediate past. They were dead less than ten years when I bought my first records, the wartime Boult set of The Planets. more > The Development of the Record Industry - by Brian Rust April 1977 The Musical Highbrow Menace by John Barbirolli MARCH 1931 Sir Thomas Beecham remembered APRIL 1961 Otto Klemperer by Walter Legge JUNE 1960		On This Day Maria Callas gives her last staged performance – as Puccini's Tosca at Covent Garden (1965) CLASSIC REVIEW March 1975 THE CLASSIC REVIEW - Emil Gilels said of the Grieg Lyric Pieces that they "open up a great intimacy of feeling". How did his classic recording first fare in Gramophone's pages ? Emil Gilels records Grieg's Lyric Pieces more > Barbirolli's Mahler Fifth DECEMBER 1969 Elgar's Violin Concerto from Nigel Kennedy Mk 1 DECEMBER 1984 Colin Davis's 1966 Messiah NOVEMBER 1966 Solti conducts Richard Strauss's Salome MARCH 1962

The 1950s were a fantastically exciting time for classical music. Maria Callas and Glenn Gould were becoming legendary figures that still excite passionate debate today, while the growth of the LP was radically changing home listening. Walter Legge remembers the artistry of Dennis Brain NOVEMBER 1957 A star in born: Maria Callas spreads her wings JANUARY 1958 Glenn Gould: a new pianist in Bach JANUARY 1958
Composer of the Week Sergei Prokofiev (1891 - 1953) Prokofiev died on the same day as Stalin. Apart from the final years of his life, he managed more successfully than any other Great Russian composer living under the dictatorship to maintain his... more > Gustav Holst (1874-1934) Leos Janácek (1854-1928) Sir Malcolm Arnold (1921-2006) Isaac Albéniz (1860-1909)		Artist of the Week Jiri Belohlavek You may have trouble with the name (Yeer-zhee Bee-ell-oh-hlah-veck), but this Czech conductor has become major fixture on the international music scene more > Sir Roger Norrington Julian Bream Polyphony André Previn