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In 1907 the 10-year-old Erich Korngold was taken to play his music to Mahler. He did so from memory; greatly impressed, Mahler recommended him to Schoenberg's teacher Zemlinsky. Three years later the boy had a pantomime produced at the Vienna Court Opera, and overnight he was a celebrity. He was...

These discs are from Philips's complete set of the thirteen symphonic poems, all from Haitink and the LPO. They are the two that were never issued separately, so if you collected the others as they appeared, you can now complete your set.

Here is another disc from the Philips set of wind concertos which was so great a success last year. Jack Brymer has made three versions of the Clarinet Concerto, one with Beecham (HMV ASD344, 7/60) and the other with Cohn Davis (Philips SAL3535, 12/65). JW detailed its virtues in September 1973...

I Musici play as one has come to expect of them in Mozart, with dashing allegros and most expressive slow movements, while their ensemble is as immaculate as ever. The music of the early Divertimentos is not consistently individual but there are remarkable moments indeed, while all the Andantes...

There is no more valuable service the gramophone industry can perform than to make available a substantial spread of a living composer's work. Would that commercial pressures allowed such ventures to be possible more often. Collected on these two records are seven of Penderecki's compositions for...