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I am indebted to Mr T. Hughes of Huddersfield for some comments on the first commercial issues of electrical recording in this country, and I must apologize for deliberately telescoping the contemporary reviewer's remark's concerning two dance records issued by Columbia in 1925, and reviewed in...

Last month we were celebrating the publication of the final segment of Solti's Ring and the 20th anniversary of the conductor's association with Decca. Next month, following Solti's two cycles at Covent Garden, both he and John Culshaw, who directed the four great recordings, will appear at a...

The re-evaluation of Elgar in the 1960's is astonishing. The time machine dealt more kindly with his friend Strauss, who may yet, of course, suffer a decline. Elgar died in 1934 and Strauss in 1949. The 1925 recording of Elgar 2 prompted the Editor to rebuke those young critics "who have tried to...