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I was slightly surprised to discover no records of Humphrey Searle's music in the March 1975 edition of the Gramophone Classical Catalogue. This one comes in good time for Searle's sixtieth birthday in August of this year. By now he has completed five symphonies and the first two no longer...

In the past, Karlheinz Stockhausen has usually performed and recorded his music with his own group of musicians based on Cologne. In March 1973 he gave a concert tour with the London Sinfonietta who are also specialists in the technique and interpretation of contemporary music, and are more...

Silvestri's approach to Stravinsky ' remains a bit too romantic for my taste, a bit too ready to point up incidental beauties at the expense of sheer accuracy, but I was more impressed than ever by the quality of the recording. For all its fourteen years it could give points to many orchestral...

With these two discs HMV complete the separate issue of the Tchaikovsky symphonies which originally appeared a little over two.years ago as a three-disc boxed set. EG found the Fourth highly competitive ("the new Karajan must again be a leading contender, when it is issued separately") and...