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Andrew Everard in his "Infidelities" column in the July Gramophone says that there is still a place for SACD and that the Oppo DV-980H was a good player. Not having an SACD player, and on his recommendation, I invested in an Oppo player. It is a little difficult tuning it as it needs the...

About a year ago, I wrote to Gramophone praising the recording of the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and Chorus's performance of The Dream of Gerontius under Sakari Oramo at Symphony Hall, at the celebrations to mark Elgar's 150th anniversary. I pleaded for the release of the performances...

WA Williamson (Letters, August) makes a valid point in his letter about Hyperion's excellent new disc of music by Lionel Monckton. However, he is not right to say that this new CD is a "one-off' original: we released "The Monckton Album" by Theatre Bel-Etage in 2004 on the Diversions label and...

In his article on building an ideal RVW Library (August, page 40), Andrew Achenbach refers to the London calling: John Barbirolli