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I'm rather surprised and certainly sad that so little has been said in Gramophone about the loss of Richard Hickox. There was a heartfelt and sincere tribute to him by Edward Greenfield (February) but little else. Yet we have letters and interviews about the retirement of Alfred Brendel; these...

One is dated September 20, 1958, and the other January 27, 1958. In addition, the timings are different. However, it must be said that Mr Oistrakh's tempi and technique did not vary all that much, especially in the same year, so it might be difficult to tell them apart by sound alone.

CO critic Don Rosenberg will harm the orchestra. True, music critics form an important part of the history of music. Some of for personal, vituperative pique masquerading as disinterested criticism. The late Claudia Cassidy in Chicago, for example, was instrumental in the removal of Jean Martinon...