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We are always told what a good composer Roussel was, yet his music has never made its mark with audiences in this country: perhaps like Vaughan Williams—or Sibelius, for that matter—in France. The more reason, then, to welcome this ballet score, for I cannot imagine anybody not enjoying it;...

It is difficult not to feel that some of the many Satie discs that have appeared lately are opportunistic, inspired more by the current vogue for his music, particularly in the USA, than by any great sympathy with it. The above, however, is different, and these are the most satisfactory readings...

At last, a worthy recording of the Overture, Scherzo and Finale. Why this first-rate piece of Schumann has been damned in some critical studies of the composer has always been quite beyond my comprehension. Anyway, if you don't know who to believe, you can now judge for yourself, at the mere cost...

In the last decade Shostakovich seems to have moved away from the symphony and concentrated much of his finest inspiration in the string quartets. True, the Twelfth and Thirteenth both date from the early 1960s but between them and this new symphony there is a gap of some seven years during which...