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May I use your columns to make an appeal to record companies and the manufacturers of tape storage equipment on behalf of cassette buyers? First, the record companies; could you please put your heads together and agree a standard format for cassette boxed sets. Originally, as we know, there were...

I recently heard a performance of the serenala Endimione by J. C. Bach—given by the BBC and stated by them to be the first performance since the eighteenth century. They also informed listeners that the performance was from J. C. Bach's original score, with alterations by later hands expunged....

I should like to make a plea for a return to the principle of one musical work per record as far as possible. If I wish to buy, say, Haydn's Symphony No. 97, 1 do not want to have to accept also another symphony which I may already have, or do not want. The 10-inch LP was the almost complete...

Choral singing, especially male voice, is not so good nowadays that it would not benefit from hearing how they sang—the best of them—in the thirties. I am thinking especially of the Kentucky Minstrels, a disguise for the BBC Men's Chorus, who under the baton of Leslie Woodgate sang

I would like to contribute to Mr Ogden's invitation (May issue, page 1547) to nominate five records of non-standard works which give me great pleasure. I have just seen Mr Rice's letter in the June issue (page 4) and, like him, since my collection contains many dozens of such works, I find it...

In his review in the July issue of the recent records of Purcell's Ten Sonatas of Four Parts (L'Oiseau-Lyre DSL060I) RE expresses surprise at the lack of available printed parts of these sonatas and indeed of the earlier Sonnaja's of!!! Parts. Earlier this year the Purcell Society produced a set...

With reference to Rodrigo's Concierto coma an divertimento (RL25420, 8/82) 1 would like to mention that at the rehearsals for the first performance last April the composer changed the tempo marking for the slow movement from Adagio nostalgico to Andante nostalgico. Of course the sleeve of the...

The blind Spanish composer Joaquin Rodrigo acknowledging the applause at the Royal Festival Hall, London following the world premiere of his 'Con cierto coma on divertimento" this April. To his left is Julian Lloyd Webber, for whom the concerto was written, and at the extreme left of the picture...