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F major; No. 5 in C major; Op. 119: No. 2 in C major; No. 7 in C major; No. 9 in A minor; Op. 126: No. 1 in

Some years ago I used to find RichterHaaser's Beethoven rather too cool and mechanical for my taste, though it was impossible not to admire his precision. But he seems to be putting much more feeling into his playing than he did, and both the first and last movements of the D minor sound much...

Last month I was writing about a record similar to the above and also called "International Chopin Competition Warsaw 1960", the performers being Maurizio Pollini, who won first prize, and Michel Block. I was wrong in saying that the latter won second prize (though he did win a "personal prize...

I had not previously heard Cesar Franck's Grand Piece Symphonique, and I am not anxious to hear it again. It suffers from the unhappy combination of excessive length (nearly half an hour) and excessive dullness. Furthermore it is quite lacking in Franckish characteristics. The last few minutes...

H.M.V. have certainly not believed in crowding themselves here. When I heard that the Transcendental Studies were appearing on two discs, I not unnaturally assumed (since the total playing time is under 61 minutes) either that some other work was coupled with them, or that they would be ten-inch...