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The Editor does not necessarily agree with any views expressed in letters printed, and reserves the right to edit correspondence where necessary.

Sir Colin Davis at the helm of the London Symphony Orchestra! There can be few admirers of this great conductor and orchestra who are not filled with the highest of hopes for this collaboration. There must be many a middleaged reader like myself who can recall Sir Colin's emergence on to the...

Cowell's music, especially the many symphonies, ever since I lived in his birthplace — Menlo Park, California — during the 1960s.

Naxos recording of the two SaintSaens piano trios which you singled out in the December "Editor's choice". Heading for the shelves customarily reserved for Naxos's releases, I was somewhat startled to find that they had been moved to a less conspicuous corner of the store. In response to my query...

I was very gratified to read (January, page 10) that impresario Denis Vaughan is spearheading attempts to restore the Kingsway Hall in London.

I was highly amused by Douglas Lorimer's letter (December, page 6) concerning linguistic errors and meaningless drivel contained in sleeve-notes. I agree with him wholeheartedly that such things do add a great deal of fun to the serious business of collecting.

Your review (December, page 176) of the compilation CD of the early work of Camille Maurane reminded me of a wonderful evening at, I think, the Musee Grevin a few years ago when some of his ex-pupils at the Paris Conservatoire (including my wife) staged a concert for his seventyfifth birthday....

Fourth Symphony in your January issue (page 60). However, I would not entirely agree with his assessment that, although it was composed during the Second World War, "no one would ever guess so". Of course it is not a 'war symphony' in the sense of Shostakovich's Leningrad or Eighth Symphony...

The January issue, with DJE's review of the Maxim Trilogy by Shostakovich on Capriccio (page 64), arrived this morning. Having listened to the CD and having consulted Derek Hulme's Shostakovich Catalogue, the socalled Maxim Trilogy in this recording appears to be made up as follows: 1 Prologue...