... Royal Ballet Of Flanders SADLER'S WELLS THE ROYAL BALLET of Flanders, in their first nroeramme at Sadler's Wells, prove that the dilemma facing ballet today is not one of good dancers but of inspired choreographers. The company is strong in all departments, with excellent principals in Stefan Schuller. Tom Van Cauwenberg. Vivien Loeber. Patricia Carey and others, a neat, good- looking corps ...

... DISC DATA Mike Harding's Komic Kutz (Philips 6625 041) Harding has now earned his place alongside Connolly and Carrott as a folk comedian and some might think he has more warmth than either of the other two. A lot of his material is not intrinsically funny, however, obtaining laughs by recognition of anecdotal circumstances rather than wit. Four sides, all recorded on loca tion, are an over ...

... Capturing the feeling of 'All That Jazz' DISC DATA All That Jazz (Casablanca NBLP 7198) For once, a Film soundtrack album that captures almost precisely the feeling of the movie, a combined paean of praise and horror story about the highs, lows and neuroses of Broadway. The musical hero is Ralph Burns, whose initial impact with the 1946 Woody Herman Orchestra has ened out to place him in ...

... Ballet Rambert OXFORD NEW WHAT STRUCK me most forcibly about the programme by Ballet Ramben at Oxford's New Theatre was the excellence of the dancers, who attacked gamely but gracefully, found their way easily through pyrotechnics, and characterised with a simple directness--always sensed, often understated. The placing of Christopher Bruce's newish Preludes and Seng'\next to Richard Alston's ...

... Otello COVENT GARDEN THE PASSIONS and tensions of Verdi's Otello came over powerfully in another revival at Covent Garden, conducted here for the first time by Carlos Kleiber. He gave the performance an authoritative vibrancy and sweep, producing wonderful richness of orchestral sound, from tender to tremendous, and driving the tragedy forward with throbbing inevitability. Strong casting ...

... DISC DATA The Great British Dance Bands Play the Music of Jimmy Kennedy and Michael Carr (World Records SH 340) From the mid-thirties up to the outbreak of World War II, Kennedy and Carr reigned supreme among British songwriters. They surely caught every mood as it came along hillbilly, nostalgia, patriotic, cheer-up and chin-up, with here and there a touch of the exotic. Superb professionals, ...

... The Great British Dance Bands Play Cole Porter (World Records SHB 66) A marvellous double album which not only features 40 of Cole Porter's best songs but is virtually a history of 17 years of British dance music, from the Jack Hylton Orchestra of 1927 to the Geraldo outfit of 1 944. It all goes to show, in case anyone has forgotten, that dance bands did not live entirely off the output of Tin ...