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"THAT pallid face and those eyes which fascinated all listeners, while beneath his apparently indifferent hands in a wonderful variety of nuances there moaned and wailed, murmured and roared, the waves of the Legende de St François de Paule. Never again will anything be seen or heard to equal...

May I comment on the incomplete nature of the recent issue "The Art of Tito Gobbi" (HMV RLS738, 6/79). Twice the booklet supplied with the set claims that this issue, together with the single disc HLM7018, comprises all of Gobbi's 78 rpm records. Indeed, in the discography prepared by Messrs...

In his review of Rubini GV505 (August, page 374), NB did not mention that this Pertile issue contains what may also be Toscanini's first operatic recording. The Balla in Ma.schera items (Parlophone R20007) were loudly and clearly advertised in the Australian catalogue in 1929 as being performed...

I note from your July issue (page 205) that in yet another cycle of the Mahler symphonies a conductor feels that he does justice to No. 10 merely by recording the Adagio.