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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...

CHORAL AND SONG

In a small pamphlet called Bach-Studio (which has just reached me) Cantate outline their ambitious scheme of Bach recordings, which extend to thirty LPs of the vocal works, twenty of these being devoted to a selection of the most important Church Cantatas, two to Motets, and eight to large-scale...

Handel's L'Allegro was written (at least the first version) in the short space of seventeen days, and this alone would suggest that Charles Jennens's "rearrangement" of Milton had fired his imagination. The music itself confirms this. Although it is a completely non-dramatic work, without even...