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REVIEWS Bruckner symphonies are conducted by Zu bin Mehta ( ra- 35), Gunter Wand and Kal'! Bohm ( <;:7 36) and Daniel Barellboim (W7 39) . Israela Margalit and Daniel Levy play piano works by Grieg ( W7 71) and David Fanning reviews six releases from Sviatoslav Richter (p, 76 J. Sanford Sylvan sings Schubert's "Die schOne Miillerin" (w:r 86) and Alan Blyth reviews Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau's 21-disc Schubert Lieder set ( IP" 86). Stanley Sadie reviews Handel aria recitals by Lorraine Hunt and Nathalie Stutzmann ( r::r 94J and Bryce Morrison considers Rachmaninov's recorded legacy (W7 J08) .

NEW RELEASES A listing of new Compact Discs, Cassettes, LPs, DCCs, MiniDiscs and LaserDiscs appearing this month ( D- 145).

INDEX TO REVIEWS

A guide to the reviews appearing this month.

CORRESPONDENCE

Including more thoughts on early stereo.

NEWS & VIEWS

Including interviews with SanJord Sylvan, Jean Guillou, Markus Stockhausen and Andreas Staier.

NORTH AMERICAN PERSPECTIVE A2 John Ardoin considers recordings of piano music. The North American Distributor Directory appears on page AS (following page 24).

THE GRAMOPHONE COLLECTION 25 Stanley Sadie surveys the available recordings of Handel's operas.

FRANZ WELSER-MOST

The Music Director of the London Philharmonic Orchestra talks about his work in London and his attitudes to performing choral mUSIc.

REVIEWS

Orchestral-]]. Chamber- GO. Instrumental-G8. Opera-74. Choral & Song-80. Opera-92. LaserDisc-l02. Stage & Screen104. Spoken Word-l 04. Historic-107. Collectors' Corner-115.

NORTH AMERICAN SUPPLEMENT A14 Andy Giles reports on the Las Vegas CES.

AUDIO

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Sounds in Retrospect-I22. AVI S2000 Series PreAmplifier Mono Power Amplifier and DIA Converter-l24. Canon S-70 Loud speaker-128. Denon PMA-450 Integrated Amplifier-I]1. Sennheiser HD440111 and HD 5201lJ Headphones-l32. Gradient SW-G] Subwoofer for the Quad ESL-G] Loudspeaker-134. New Products-J]7.

INDEX TO ADVERTISERS DISTRIBUTOR DIRECTORY A table oj UK distributors.

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HINDSIGHT

Alan Sanders looks through back issues ofGRAMOPHONE of GO, 40 and 20 years ago.

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FRONT COVER Franz Welser-Most, Music Director of the LPO, is featured on the cover to coincide with the release ofhis new recording of Stravinsky's "Oedipus Rex" (reviewed on page ]00). He talks to the Editor on page 28. (Photo: EM IIMacpherson)

NEXT MONTH The April front cover marks the launch of Decca's Entartete Musik project. John Mauceri conducts Korngold's "Das Wunder der Heliane" and Lothar Zagrosek conducts Krenek's "Jonny spielt auf'. Also next month, Michael Stewart considers Korngold's music on record. The April 199] issue is published on Wednesday 17th March.