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The editorial was largely devoted to Sir Landon Ronald who had died on August 14th after an illness which had virtually cut him off from active work for some two years. Later in the issue was a tribute from F. W. Gaisbergand who better to give one than the man who had introduced Ronald to the...

For two days at the end of July, King's College Chapel in Cambridge was Out of bounds to even the most determined tourist. The choir of the Chapel, the English Chamber Orchestra and soloists, led by Thomas Allen in the title-role, were busy there recording Handel's Saul for EMI. Even though there...

In Britain, the French conductor Serge Baudo has been most closely associated with two twentieth-century composers, namely Honegger, whose symphonies and other works Baudo has recorded so successfully with the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra for Supraphon (the complete set of five symphonies is...

Accardo's other most recent recording is of all the Bruch works for violin and orchestra with the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra under Kurt Masur (reviewed on page 467). "There are actually three violin concertos. Until last year I thought there were only two. The third, Written later than the...