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It's little wonder that sales of classical CDs are slow when the distributors seem so disorganised. Time and again I have tried to buy CDs that were favourably reviewed, only to find that they are unavailable. My most recent experiences arose from the February edition of The Gramophone. I wanted...

In response to Nicholas Dodson Coleman (Letters, June) I feel I must jump to Concert Artists' defence. Any retail outlet that has access to the website should have no problem obtaining the discs mentioned. We have been supplying our customers with Concert Artist discs for some months now without...

Peter Dickinson Oune, page 46) describes the GPO disc of Antheil's piano concertos as 'important first recordings'. They are not: I have a CD on Arte Nova of the First

In the discussion of the summer season at Ravinia (Summer Festivals Guide, May, page 63), Erwin Schulhoff was described as German-Jewish. He is, of course, Czech. Many Czechs in the first part of the 20th century had German family names. They still do, but they alter the spelling so that the...

Ken Smith describes Osvaldo Golijov as 'the hot American composer of the moment' (May, page 71). It would be nice to rectify this error. Golijov is 100 per cent Argentinian (living in Boston).

Good thing Simon Rattle is on the cover on an Editor's Choice selection (in May). Otherwise I would have thought your criteria were based upon women's hair and possibly cleavage. I guess those still sell in an oversaturated market.

In Richard Wigmore's string quartets feature (April, page 23), a quote attributed to Kixoly Schranz implied that Roger Tapping was still a member of the Takscs Quartet. We wish to clarify that Roger Tapping was the quartet's viola player until August 2005, since when the violist has been...

In the March issue you were asked to identify five orchestral works and the instrument featured. They were: Mahler's Symphony No 7, Richard Strauss's Don Quixote, Henry Wood's Fantasia on British Sea Songs, 'Uranus' from Holst's The Planets, and Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition. The...