FEBRUARY 1980 Vol. 57 No. 681
Publisher & Editor ANTHONY POLLARD
Records Ed i tor MALCOLM WALKER
Audio Editor JOHN BORWICK
Audio Consultant
JOHN GILBERT
Advertisement Co-ordinator
DERMOT JONES
Circulation Manager STEPHEN 'PRESCOTT
Subscription Manager
LILIAN SHERER
Deputy Publisher & Advertisement Oirector
BARRY IRViNG
CONTRIBUTORS
NICHOLAS ANDERSON
DENIS ARNOLD
MARY BERRY ALAN BLYTH WILLIAM A CHISLETT
JOAN CHISSELL MARTIN COOPER
JOHN DUARTE DAVID FALLOWS
ROGER FISKE ROBIN GOtDING EDWARD GREENFIELD
MAX HARRISON TREVOR HARVEY
ANDREW LAMB ROBERT LAYTON MALCOLM MACDONALD
WILLIAM MANN
IVAN MARCH MICHAEL OLIVER RICHARD OSBORNE STEPHEN PLAISTOW GORDON REYNOLDS
STANLEY SADIE LIONEL SALTER
JOHN STEANE JOHN WARRACK
STANLEY WEBB ARNOLD WHITTALL
Incorporating CASSETIES & CARTRIDGES
CONTENTS1230IndextoReviews1230NewRecordandCassetteReleases1232Correspondence1247AQuarterlyRetrospectbyRobert Layton 1255 Here and There with Norman Austin. Carolyn Nott. Alan Sanders and
Maleol m Wal ker 1259 Book Reviews 1260 Contri butors' Notes 1260 Editorial Notes
REVIEWS1263127.61281 . 1282 ,
Orchestral .Chamber .Music
1293 1302 1302 1306
Instrumental Choral and Song bpera CaSsette Commentary by Geoffrey Horn Nights at the Round Table Jazz
AUDIO1308Commentary1313AudioDiary
Equipment Reviews: 1314 Six magnetic cartridges in review by John Borwick (Eagle P750X;
Goldring G900JIGC; JVC-Z-3EJD; Nagaoka !VIP-50; Ortofon Concorde 30; Shure SC39ED) 1323 Sony TC-K65 cassette deck by John Borwick 1324 . Celestion Ditton 332 loudspeaker by John Borwick 1327 Audio News '1328 New Products ·
FRONT COVER The world premi~re recording of Dvoftk's opera The }acobin is reviewed on page 1293
NEXT MONTH Full details of the Gramophone Record Awards for 1979 Interviews with Paul Tortelier and The King's Singers Plus reports on the follow ing : Audio Technica ATIIOO pickup arm, ADC ZLM/lil cartridge, Hafler Power Amplifier DH-200 and Toshiba Micro system ' The March 1980 issue of GRAMOPHONE will be publ ished on Wednesday March 5th GRAMOPHONE is published by General Gramophone Publications Limited 177-179 Kenton Road Harrow Middlesex HA3 OHA (telephone 01-907 4476) Trade Sales Counter 23-27 Tudor Street London EC4Y OHR (telephone 01-583 9199) GRAMOPHONE i , !>ubli'hed on rhe first Wednesdov of each month and is available (rom all newsa~ents and bookstall•. Annual subscri!>tions "ee!>an 1336: US air s!>oodod rato 127, 00. second closs !>osta~e !>aid New York , US mailin, a~entl: E.!>editers of tho Printed Word Ltd" 527 Madison Avenue. New York. NY 10022, Printed in Eniliand. Whilst eve,. effort has bren made (0 ensure the aCCurocy of statements within this ma~az;ne. we cannot accept res1>Onsibilitv (or any errors or omissions, or for matters arisin6 from clerical or printers' errors, or an advertiser not completinw his contract. It i , r~Quested that aJl/etters to (he Editor reouirinll 0 tlersonol reoly should be accompanied by a slambed addressed enve/ot>e. Subscribers, both at home and abroad. are reouested to advise chonlle of address details to our SubscrioCion D~artm'lIt at least five w.eks t>rior to the chan~. becomin~ effoctivo, ISSN 0017-3 lOX ~"GramoDhone"-1980
