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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...

A satisfying account of these lovely and deservedly popular songs has been overdue for some time. Pears's version (78 r.p.m. Decca AM585-7) had him too near the microphone and on Argo, the version mentioned for comparison above, with Alexander Young as the interpreter, though in many ways a most...

This is an actual performance record, punctuated on one side by sudden crashes of applause as the audience twigs which of the famous songs is -about to begin (it usually takes them to seconds—less in the case of Tosca " E lucevan "). There are some shouts too and some moments when the veteran...

A well-chosen anthology of British twentieth-century song, very well performed. The recital opens and closes with a composition of Frank Bridge : Britten pays tribute to his admired teacher. In Go not happy day (words by Tennyson) and Love wsnt a-riding (words by Mary Coleridge) both pianist and...