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The Octet was originally spread over two sides with Wolf's Italian Serenade and Rossini's Third Sonata for strings completing the other side. Now it is accommodated on one side with no appreciable difference in quality: I compared the opening of the finale which began Side 2 Members of I Musici...

This is an intermittently pleasing record, conveying an atmosphere of good fellowship and relaxed music making which of course is appropriate to the music being made. I can sense how enjoyable the recording sessions must have been. Maurizio Pollini was saying in an interview with AB last month...

When the Editor asked what I wanted by way of comparison with this record, I looked in the current issue of the Gramophone Classical Catalogue and found that Szeryng had coupled the same two concertos, the genuine No. 5 and the less well authenticated No. 6. Comparison of the two records seemed...

Gunther Herbig is certainly a man for repeats, I thought as I listened to the K63 Cassation; and does such slight music, even by Mozart, bear such repetition nowadays when we don't listen to it as background music? The only relief is that he lets us off the repeat of the second part of the Adagio...