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A highly attractive Brunswick record, called "Early Baroque Music of Italy" (mono AX.A4539 stereo SXA4539) must be one of the last made by the New York Pro Musica group under their lamented founder and director, the late Noah Greenberg; the same clarity and sense of style are shown here by the...

Down at Hayes they are doubtless feeling surprised, and perhaps a little hurt, at the reception accorded to their two-disc HMV set of excerpts from The Trojans: instead of applause for breaking fresh ground, they have encountered nothing but reproaches for not having done Berlioz's masterpiece...

The only English performances, at Cambridge some years ago, of Aaron Copland's opera, The Tender Land, were plainly inadequate; and I had therefore much looked forward to a CBS record, under the composer's direction, of substantial extracts amounting to about two-thirds of the score. But the...