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This record completes the Handel concerto series from Simon Preston, which in most respects has been the best complete recording of the concertos so far issued in this country. The more disappointing, then, that much of the vitality seems to have gone out of the playing. The record was made on...

No. 96 in D major. Boston Symphony Orchestra conducted by Erich Leins- dorf. RCA Victrola VICS1577 (99p).

One of the results of EMI's entry into films is the prospect of good studio recordings of film music rather than what is taken from a soundtrack at second hand. This record is one such. The film Tales of Beatrix Potter is based on the author's own illustrations and is a purely visual exercise....

I can't imagine that there's any possibility of surpassing the superlative CBS/Bernstein issue of Mahler Seven, but this new Philips/Haitink one is certainly a formidable rival to it. The surprising thing is that Haitink's interpretation has most of the same virtues as Bernstein's—the tempi are...