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At a very casual glance these titles may look like yet another "pop" disc of overplayed Russian trifles, but in fact they are not. It is true that Rimsky's Procession of the Nobles is just what one might expect, but at least it's not the oft-recorded Bridal Cortege from Le Coq d' Or, while...

Stereo was bound to hit upon, sooner or later, that great master Giovanni Gabrieli, whose instrumental music is so far repre sented in our catalogues by only one

I was writing only last month of this performance of Ibert's witty Divertissement, and it was a pleasure to hear it again; indeed I enjoyed it more than the other works on this disc. Some of the playing sounds a little hard-driven ; for instance Hercules's tune in Le Rouet d' Omphale loses...

CHAMBER MUSIC

These are the best of Beethoven's five string trios, and the C minor is as fine as any of the Op. 18 quartets. Indeed it is so well written that much of it sounds as though four, if not five, instrumentalists were playing rather than three, the texture of sound being most ingeniously varied,...

The Russians, A.P. found, were monophonically imperturbable, perhaps a shade too well-groomed. In stereo their suavity is even more apparent, but since the choice is between their interpretation and the "live" recording of Horszowski, Casals, and Vegh (with tuning, coughing, and many minor,...