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Frisky Sargent

love the Mozart Clarinet Concerto, so was worried when I saw your March issue CD that one of true great performers on that instrument, Jack Brymer, would be weighed down by Malcolm Sargent’s stodgy conducting. Not a bit of it. The whole thing is so musical. I then came to the Beethoven expecting the same. But again, the BBC Symphony is on great form, and although the recording shows its age, I’m sure Ludwig van B would approve – had Flash Harry been listening to

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