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A previous recital by Sir John Gielgud was called "Ages of Man". This, being the second part of "Ages of Man", is entitled "One Man in his Time". The extracts have been selected with great skill to take us directly to the "many parts" imagined by Shakespeare, but these are from the generality of...

MUSIC FOR SCHOOLS

I have little to add to what I wrote in December about the first two discs in Paxton's Keyboard Classics series. I can see nothing classical about the dull little pieces on the second disc, and nothing "keyboard" about the orchestral marches, etc., transcribed for the third and fourth. They make...

CLASSICAL REISSUES ORCHESTRAL

MONIQUE HAAS. (a) Fantasiestucke; (b) Piano Concerto in A minor (Schumann). Haas (piano) with (b) Berlin P.O./E. Jochum. Heliodor Q 478037 (12 in., 155. 10d. plus Is. 23. PT.). (a) from Polydor 10123-not previously available in this country (b) from DG10007 (4/57).

FRITZ LEHMANN. (a) Coppelia Ballet (Delibes): Theme slave variee; Danse de Fete and Valse des Heures; Nocturne; Musique des Automats and Value Lente; Czardas. (b) Sleeping Beastly Ballet (Tchaikovsky): Introduction and March; Mazurka; Pas d'action; Panorama; Polacca; Danse des Pages; Value....

SEEMANN/LEHMANN. (a) Piano Concerto No. 26 (Mozart); (b) Concert Rondo in D major (Mozart). (a) Berlin P.O./Seemann; (b) Bamberg S.0./ Lehmann. Hetiocior Q 478078 (12 in., 15s. 10d. plus 5s. 2d. PT.). From DGM18143 (10/55).

(c) Le Nozze di Figaro (Mozart): Overture. (d) Alms Hassan (Weber): Overture. (a) Munich Chamber Orch./Stepp, (b and c) Berlin P.O./Lehmann, (d) Bamberg S.0./Lehmann. D.G.G. EPL30502 (7 in., 9s. 3d. plus 3s. Old. P.T.). (a) from DGM18280 (9/56), (b and c) from Hclioclor 478074 (8(60), (d) from...