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Pomp will out ; and even in Italy Elgar found circumstance enough for a clangour of brass, by allowing the contemplation of Roman ruins to lead him to remember history. But in the breadth of this portrait of Ancient Rome is the only point at which George Weldon's Columbia record, good as it...

These two comic opera overtures are vividly played and recorded with fine quality, though in both works I found the woodwind too much in the background, notably the oboe in the first quiet episode in the Smetana overture. I presume this is taken from the LP of Bartered Bride excerpts reviewed by...

Before valves convincingly won the day other methods of turning the natural trumpet, with its very incomplete scale, into a chromatic instrument were experimented with. One such experiment involved fitting the trumpet with keys in the manner of a woodwind instrument. The result was held to be...

The American edition of this record is entitled " British Band Classics ", which is a strictly true description of the music : these are indeed the British band classics, virtually complete. But if American readers suppose that these classics therefore form the staple of the military band...

One feels discouraged- from writing at length about what should have been an important and welcome issue ; for this performance of the dramatic and beautiful Faust Symphony can at best be regarded as a stop-gap. Argenta's performance is under-detailed, unimaginative—not vivid enough in the...

Not, however, Nos. i and 2 from any one numbering system : that would be making life altogether too easy. No. t, as here recorded, is No. z of the orchestral set arranged by Liszt and his pupil Doppler (or more probably by Doppler with some backseat driving from Liszt) ; and it is also No. 14 of...