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HISTORY is not best written at close quarters. We are still too much under the nose of the 1950s to know yet whether as some people suspect, this last decade is the most important in the history of the gramophone as a musical instrument.

LI OW does the past decade of long-playing records look to the artists who fashion the musical performances ? I put a set of questions to the following artists, who were kind enough to devote a good deal of time to providing their answers: Sir Adrian Boult, formerly chief conductor of the B.B.C....