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As a regular reader I have noticed what is perhaps an important omission in the recent reviews of Debussy's Saxophone Rhapsody (March and May 1975) in recorded performances by Jean-Marie Londeix.

I should like to take up the point made by Michael Oliver in his review of the most recent John Williams recording of Rodrigo's Concierto de Aranjuez on cassette (May, p. 2032— deemed to be as welcome as socks are for Christmas), that there is a lack of Monteverdi, Schoenberg and Tippett on...

During the years from 1948 to 1958, I purchased a goodly number of vocal scores in a store which was known as Ring's Music and Plays and was on Cherokee Avenue just a few doors below Hollywood Boulevard. It was a fascinating store—musty, creaky-floored, narrow and high-ceilinged and I spent...

I strongly support Michael Cox's plea (April, p. 1901) for more records of music by Medtner; not only the concertos but piano works, violin and piano sonatas, and songs. Several of the latter were recorded on 78 rpm records by Schwarzkopf with Medtner at the piano and as the recording was good...