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To celebrate the release of their new recording of Verdi's La traviata, Decca held a party in the Paintings Gallery of the Theatre Museum, London for the cast and produc- tion team involved. In the photo are (from left) Leo Nucci (Giorgio Germont), Angela Gheorghiu (Violetta), Sir Georg Solti...

Manfred Huss and his Haydn Sinfonietta, Vienna are in the process of recording around a dozen discs devoted to the muchneglected Divertimento repertoire of Haydn for Koch Schwann. Neglected, the Vienna-born Huss maintains, for a number of reasons, "partly there is no Edition and the Haydn...

That haven of calm and enthusiasm in the centre of Bologna, the record shop F. Bongiovanni, celebrates 90 years in the music business and 20 years as a record label. Founded in 1905 by Francesco Bongiovanni, a Sicilian flautist, the company secured the publishing rights for Respighi's music and...

Withinmonths of signing a new contract with Teldec (see May, page 10), Gidon Kremer has signed a new agreement with DO which will provide for an extensive series of discs over the coming years. Plans include Weber's Quartet for Piano and String Trio, Op. 8;

The Monastery of St Florian n Bruckner's time, and for several centuries before, the Monastery of St Florian, near Linz in Upper Austria, huge, grand and powerful, dominated the region. It also dominated Bruckner's life and his psyche, and it still possesses him, jealously, after his death. Anton...