THE HUNGRY GRAMOPHIL
Sir,-In a recent issue of your journal one of your commentators deplored the plight of "gramophils." It is true that we are but rarely offered good_recordings in the scanty time set aside for socalled classical music. Yet we do look forward to such items, and the disappointment at hearing inferior renderings of recorded music is the greater when the gramophil knows that better issues exist, and are, for inexplicable reasons, not released. As a recent case, I would like to refer to the Chamber Music hour from Station 2YC, Wellington. I had made a point of listening in to Schubert’s Trout Quintet (op. 114), and although I admit that the best-known recording, by the Pro Arte Quartet and Arthur Schnabel is not, from a recording point of view at least, perfect, it is infinitely better than the discs played over 2YC on Monday; December 12. Would it not be possible to select. the best rendering available? Again, if only a very inferior recording is available, why not forgo the work in question?
GRAMOPHIL
(Wellington).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 22, Issue 551, 13 January 1950, Page 5
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