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The Sena jurinac record in HMV's Golden Voice series is most welcome, especially since much of the material comes from no longer available opera sets. The first side is wholly devoted to Mozart, and ends with performances of the Countess's two arias (from the Glyndebourne/Gui Figaro) which are...

BY W. A. CHISLETT (INLY a few weeks ago I was reminded '" pleasantly of the winter of 1924-5, when a photograph of an instrument still in use was sent in by a reader Of THE GRAMOPHONE With a letter asking for information. It was of the "Pleated Diaphragm" model made by HMV and introduced to the...

By now I was happily placed, reviewing band records for THE GRAMOPHONE and classical records generally for the Halifax Courier. The proliferation of records today is such that one tends to think that forty years ago records were confined to purple patches from operas and lighter music. A glance...

Similarly with electrical reproduction when it followed. Although I fitted myself up with various pickups, amplifiers and speakers it was quite a long time before I found anything that gave me greater overall satisfaction than the acoustic model with a huge horn and a beautiful clockwork motor...

The early 1930s were lean years. All the more credit therefore to HMV that in 1931 they backed the then young Walter Legge's idea to add less familiar music to the repertoire by Society issues. The first was the Hugo Wolf Society, for which I claim the credit of having enlisted seven or eight...

Although band records were my primary preoccupation as a member of THE GRAMO- PHONE staff throughout these years I was far from being confined to them. I was particularly interested in the music of some composers whom I felt to be unduly neglected and wrote short articles on them and their...