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SIR CHARLES GROVES is celebrating his 75th birthday this month with a release of English string music on RPO records, with the RPO strings, "who were wonderful", recording Elgar's Serenade for strings, Britten's Frank Bridge Variations, Vaughan Williams Tallis Fantasia and the Tippett Fantasia...

A scene from the New D'Oyly Carte Company's production of Gilbert and Sullivan 's "The Pirates of Penzance", which has recently been recorded by TER Records Ltd. The soprano Marilyn Hill-Smith makes a special guest appearance on the recording. Further recordings in the series will include "The...