THE HUNGRY GRAMOPHIL
Sir,-I would like to support "Gramophil’s" plea, in your issue of January 13, for the best recordings. I suppose that the less satisfactory records, having been bought, must sometimes be used, but I have long noticed that the most satisfying records of this or that piece seem to get shelyed-perhaps on the Gresham law that the bad records drive out the good! Much the most gripping playing of Liszt’s Campanella is Levitsky’s, yet I’ve not heard it in ten years of radio listening. Isador Goodman’s, the one we usually get, is poor by comparison- -, a
dead, in fact, Easily the best record I know of the Enigma Variations is that made by Elgar himself on his seventieth birthday. That of Sir Adrian Boult, the one we seem always to receive, is not nearly as arresting as the one conducted by the composer. I would not advocate shelving all except the best performances, but I do at least stand for all being brought out in turn, so that we may see what each conductor or performer makes of the score. So, too, with plays and readings. At least, don’t banish the best.
F. K.
TUCKER
(Gisborne):
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 22, Issue 554, 3 February 1950, Page 5
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198THE HUNGRY GRAMOPHIL New Zealand Listener, Volume 22, Issue 554, 3 February 1950, Page 5
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