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I hope that B. J. Dennis-Browne's enthusiastic letter (July, page 6) and Stephen Plaistow's review (same issue, page 20) will give Bryan Crimp's biography of Solomon the circulation it deserves. I was riveted from start to finish and left wondering why the British public have this aversion to the...

I was extremely interested to read Michael Haas's article in July (page 14) on the new Sony Classical release of Goldschmidt's opera Beatrice Cenci and I feel that congratulations are due to all concerned with this splendid recording, particularly as it followed so closely on Decca's fine...

I was, in common, no doubt, with many others, delighted to see EMI publicly recant from their draconian deletions policy (The EMI

JBS has got my goat. In his July "Quarterly retrospect" (page 30) he perseveres with that old canard that "sound-recording has to compensate, deliberately, for the absence of sight". In other words the producer has the right to distort the natural sound balance for our supposed benefit.

Did I miss something, or could it possibly be true that your magazine let May of 1995 pass by without mentioning Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau's seventienth birthday? As a young woman in my twenties, I must say I find the superb artistry of this musical titan to be every bit as vital, engaging and...

Having just come across Adrian Marriage's letter on the behaviour of the Promenaders (May, page 6), I hope it is not too late to offer a youngish person's perspective on his points; I am 27. Although I have never stood in the promenade, I have looked down on its inhabitants from various parts of...