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simply be dismissed. It is fundamental to the theology of Christian Science that evil needs to be faced and healed on the basis that man, properly perceived through prayer, can be understood to be in a state of present perfection, here and now, as God's image and likeness. So Prokofiev would have...

Interesting to learn, in Ivan Moody's Proms piece ("That Strain Again", July, page 26) that Antonio Teixeira "wrote a substantial amount of scared as well as secular cantatas". That pesky Inquisition again?

In our review of the "Martha Argerich and Friends" disc (June, page 77) we erroneously stated that Glinka write his Grand Sextet in 1932. This should have been 1832, of course.

The May Gramophone was our special 1876 edition and, aptly enough, what linked the six works in our cover disc competition was the year 1876. However, the works were not all premiered that year, as many of you erroneously suggested! The excerpts were from Grieg, Peer Gynt Suite No 1 (first...

The Amadeus Quartet were among the most important chamber ensembles of the 20th century, and Siegmund Nissel, who has died aged 86, their highly respected second violinist.

For 30 years conductor Noel Davies - who has died aged 63 - was a stalwart member of English National Opera, where he was a highly regarded resident conductor.