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There used to be three enjoyable Nixa records of Schubert piano duets played by Badura-Skoda and Demus, but they have been withdrawn for some time, and recently there have been no examples in the catalogue of this large and important branch of Schubert's output. The Divertissement la Hongroise,...

I don't see quite why Supraphon should have wanted to bring out this record in England. It does not serve to introduce us to any completely outstanding new pianist: though Miss Mirka Pokorna is certainly an able and musical one, able and musical pianists are not uncommon. And the programme is...

Palaschko). Tcherepnin. Ode. Paganini Caprice, Op. 1, No. 13 (arr. Kreisler). Janos Starker ('cello), Gerald Moore (piano). Columbia Q 33CX1700 (12 in., 30s. plus 9s. 9d. P.T.).

This is the second of Cantate's discs devoted to trombone music, in which the Bethel Trombone Group play arrangements of four well-known chorales. I can well understand that youths should be encouraged to play trombones rather than run about the streets in gangs, but it would be difficult to...

The complete works of Elisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre and of Louis-Nicolas Clerambault were published 22 years ago by Paul Brunold. They are played here by Thurston Dart, who does his best to make them sound as French as possible, and he is largely successful. Neither composer belongs to the great...

It is perhaps ironical that the most musical and most satisfying version of jesu meine Freude is a performance not in the original German, but in English. A masterpiece such as this needs a masterly performance, aided and abetted by first-rate balancing and editing. But the H.M.V.,