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Temporarily tucked away in the hills of Pennsylvania, I have been unable to review as many records as in previous years, though I hear the best of the new issues as a matter of course. Some of the following choices will therefore be borrowed from A.R., with (I hope) his permission. I confess to...

This year I have marked down 15 records, but I have dutifully pruned these to the stipulated half-dozen. The Shaw-Terry letters, beautifully read by Dame Peggy Ashcroft and Cyril Cusack should delight everybody. Not only have they great charm of utterance, but they embody much literary and...

A month or two ago we were thinking here about Stokowski and his occasional re-scoring of orchestral music. Among comments from readers is a letter from the conductor, who points Out that "it sometimes happens that if the music is played exactly as it is printed, important thematic lines are not...