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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...

B major, D.575. Friedrich Wuehrer (piano). Vox VBX9 (three 12 in., 56s. 7id. plus 18s. 41c1. P.T.). The works marked t above were previously avail able on Vox PL8210 (3/54), and that marked * above on PL8420.

This seems to be the first time these two Widor organ symphonies have been offered complete in this country, though there have usually been several recordings in the catalogue of the rightly-popular Toccata of No. 5, and, for nearly eight years, one of the final variations of the Gothic by Jeanne...

In 1959 Ivan Quinnell, an English pianist in his middle twenties, won a competition sponsored by the Guild for the Promotion of Welsh Music; each of the 86 pianists who went in for it was required to play a recital built round David Wynne's First Piano Sonata. The record described above is Ivan...