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I read the interview (June, page 20) with Reinhold Friedrich with great interest, and have purchased two of his recent CDs ("Classical Trumpet Concertos" and "Modern Trumpet") which I have enjoyed very much.

When BSB failed in 1990 they abandoned no less than 10 highpower transponders aboard the Marco Polo satellites they had already commissioned. These alone would have provided distribution of all the existing national radio and TV services, allowing the existing wasteful and inflexible terrestrial...

In his letter Mr Tee seems to imply that Natzke's outstanding performance as Sarastro in The Magic Flute was given in 1938. This actually took place in early 1947. In 1938 he certainly made his operatic debut at the Royal Opera House with the Covent Garden English Opera Company, but as Wagner in...

Although Cherkassky's recent recordings for Nimbus contain some excellent playing such as a ravishing Chopin Nocturne in D flat Op. 27 No. 2 and a soulful Rachmaninov Core/li Variations, he does seem restricted by the recording studio, and the reverberant acoustic, I feel, finds him reigning in...