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By a slip I last month named Kathleen Ferrier's partner in the Purcell duets on Columbia SED5530 as Margaret Ritchie ; this should of course have been Isobel Baillie (page 473). A.P.

Mr. Deryck Cooke's otherwise helpful sleeve-note is silent about the identity of Robert Still, which is a pity, since he has not found his way into Grove either. The music suggests a composer neither very young nor very old, experienced and fluent, but without anything very interesting to say. It...

Rubinstein, Helfetz, Platigorsky (11/52) (H)ALP1000 I can find only one reason for recommending this record, but it is a good one : Mendelssohn's Piano Trio in C minor is an astonishingly fine piece of music, one of the very best of his later compositions. It is scarcely ever played, partly...

I had better say straight off that these performances are in the baroque tradition, and those who like piling diapason upon diapason need read no further. Presumably the organ is modern, judging by the name of the building that houses it (Can there really be a place called "The Victoria Hall" in...