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When Garrick Ohlsson recorded all the Chopin Polonaises it was clear that an important pianist was among us, and initial interest has subsequently been enhanced by later issues. He is now an exclusive EMI artist with a growing schedule in front of him. Following his new recordings of the four...

While the world is full of marvellous young pianists we still hear of the dearth of string players, a curious reflection on the days, not so long ago, when aspiring musicians took up a wind instrument as an easier way into the orchestral world. Nevertheless it is impossible to imagine a time when...

The issue for June 1934 was notable for a spate of Richard Strauss records. These were of Don Quixote, conducted by the composer and with Enrico Mainardi playing the cello part, with an extract from the ballet-pantomime Schlagobers as a fill-up; Fritz Busch conducting the BBC SO in Till...

In a centenary tribute to the musical comedy composer Paul A. Rubens in the April issue (p. 1787) I referred to his attachment to Phyllis Dare, younger of the two sisters who were picture-postcard beauties of the Edwardian musical theatre. While the April issue was going to press came news of the...

We have to record the deaths of Sir Jack Westrup, formerly Professor of Music at Oxford and an outstanding scholar, whose researches into the music of the seventeenth century resulted in his great book on Purcell; also of Aksel Schibtz, the Danish singer, whose records of Schubert's Lieder and...