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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...

Instead of paying £1499 for a full price EMI Classics CD at W.H. Smith, you need only pay £1029. A Hyperion CD could cost you £950 instead of £1299. An EMI mid-price CD £729 instead of999. The Karajan Gold CDs cost £1499 each at WHS. The full set of 20 would cost £29980. The 20-CD boxed...

I sometimes wonder if some conductors shy away from using trebles because they are unaccustomed to working with children. It must after all be a very different skill from those normally required in music making. Last year I was privileged to attend one of the recording sessions for Mr King's...

In Job, Boult seemed ambivalent (or, simply, open-minded) about his choice of option. While his 1954 Kingsway HaIIILPO/Decca recording opts for organ and (barely-audible) timps only, his 1958 Royal Albert Hall/LPO/Bellock-Everest version uses the full orchestra with the organ and timps faintly in...

Chris Mankelow is researching a discography of English Parlophone 78rpm discs. The work for the first part—the Parlophone Odeon and the 12-inch E.10000 series—is virtually complete but some gaps remain. Could any readers holding collections of Parlophone 78s supply details of matrix numbers...

Contrary to the information supplied to us by Vanguard Classics (Editorial note, May), the Centaur disc of Schubert's Symphony in E, recorded by Gerhard Samuel, is not the same work as that recorded in the 1960s by Franz Litschauer for Vanguard. Our apologies to Centaur for this misinformation.

The Westminster Abbey recording taken during the burial service for the Unknown Warrior in November 1920 was originated by the Columbia Graphophone Company not HMV. The recording was made by the Hon. Lionel Guest and Captain H.O. Merriman using a cutting head based on Fesseridine's Submarine...