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An American musician, working under the aegis of a society named after a genial German composer, presents in this album a varied selection of arrangements of tunes from John Playford's well-known publication, which was edited in facsimile by Margaret Dean-Smith in 1957 (Schott, 42s.). The first...

With this set Vox completes its highly laudable plan of issuing all Schubert's chamber music at popular prices; and on the whole, though there are a few criticisms which can be made, it is perhaps the most successful of the three boxes devoted to the scheme. First of all, though, a fine old...

This is a top-grade performance very well recorded. The piano tone sounds unusually clean and clear, largely because Casadesus uses very little sustaining pedal; when he does, it tells. This sonata needs playing with what you might call a restrained abandon, and that is what it gets on this...

Of these two Czech pianists, Frantisek Rauch is new to the catalogue, and his playing is a good deal more to my taste. He takes the first movement of the Moonlight very slowly indeed, almost as slowly as Solomon, and although one does not quite hang on each note as one does listening to Solomon...

Philips (!) ABE 10175 (7 in., 1 ls. plus 3s. 7d. P.T.). The item marked 1- was previously available on SBF189 (2/60).

B major, Op. 62, No. 1. Jan Smeter- lin (piano). Philips (!) ABE10174 (7 in., 1 Is. plus 3s. 7d. P.T.).

Dvofik's Slavonic Dances were originally written at the request of his publisher who asked for a Slavonic equivalent to Brahms's Hungarian Dances. Dvolik composed them for piano duet, and anyone who still keeps up this rather Edwardian pastime will know what fun they are to play. No worries here...