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Am I alone in mourning the demise of your `Masterclass' feature, last seen in last year's Awards edition? This close examination of a different work each month was one of the most stimulating of your regular features. I would always turn with anticipation to see whether the work under scrutiny...

Answers to March's cover CD competition in which we asked you to identify the birds in the works are: the Woodbird from Wagner's Siegfried (track 13); sparrow — Mozart's Spatzenmesse (14); dove — Mendelssohn's '0 for the wings of a dove' (15); magpie — Rossini's La gazza ladra (16); swan...

Our UK Label Distribution Directory has now moved to our website, gramophone.co.uk, (to make room for more reviews!). The site will be regularly updated to keep pace with changes in distribution. For an up-to-date paper copy of the directory, please contact Gramophone's secretary Pamela Devlin on...