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FRANCK. Prelude, Choral et Fugue. C. Chailley-Richez (Piano Gaveau). London International TW9 1145 (12 in., 39s. 71d.).

This is a more compact and better recorded account of the work than Gladys Swarthout's (which was filled out with some songs to a twelve inch size). It is also in better, if not quite peerless or immaculate French. But the total effect is somewhat heavy in hand and lugubrious. The Greek mezzo is...

The first UNESCO-sponsored record to reach this country contains one important, impressive and beautiful composition of our time : Dallapiccola's Canti di Prigionia, which takes all of one side. I hope to be able to write about this piece more fully when I have obtained a score : even without...

It is sad when an evidently good per-. formance is spoilt by indifferent recording, but that is what has happened in this new issue of Mozart's Requiem Mass. Compared with the Decca recording the choral sound lacks body and is constricted and dry in tone, the tenors, in particular, having a fizzy...