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The name of Ingolf Dahl ()912-70) will, I suspect, be unfamiliar to the vast majority of readers (it certainly was to me), so a spot of background information is in order. Born in Hamburg of Swedish parentage, Dahl studied first at the Cologne Hochschule für Musik and then at the Zurich...

RCA Victor Living Stereo W 09026 68079-2 (62 minutes: ADD). Items marked a from SB2128 (10/61), bSB2103 (4/61).

Brigg Fair. Koanga - La calinda. Hassan -Intermezzo; Serenade. A Song before Sunrise. On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring. A Village Romeo and Juliet - The Walk to the Paradise Garden. Irmelin Prelude. Over the hills and far away.

WNO Orch, Mackcrras (12190) (ARGO) 430 202-2ZH The Walk to the Paradise Garden - selected comparison: BBC SO, A. Davis (1/94) (TELD) 4509-90845-2

Several recordings of Dyson's music in recent years have demonstrated that this public-school music master from a working-class background -finally Director of the Royal College of Music in London - was far more than an academic composer. In many ways this is the most rewarding, most heartwarming...

From Dublin the Field family moved, via Bath, to London. And it was there, at a King's Theatre charity concert on February 7th, 1799 (not 1794 as stated in the booklet) that John, now 17, hit the headlines as soloist in his own First Piano Concerto in E flat. Even today it is easy to understand...