OPHONE Incorporating CASS ETTES & CARTR IDG ES

JULY 1984 Vol. 62 No. 734

CONTENTSINDEXTOREVIEWS-IncludingKarajan'sCDonlyMahlerNinerecorded live at the Berlin Festival in 1982-"one of the seven wonders of the modern musical world".

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NEW RELEASES-LP, Compact Disc and Cassette releases for July 98 CORRESPONDENCE-Thoughts on Compact Disc from three English counties and California, and a reader from Wolverhampton complains of a local cassette shortage.

99

NEWS & VIEWS-EMI's ICRC on parade, and interviews with

Mitsuko Uchida and John Wallace

101

QUARTER LY RETROSPECT-John Steane touches a tender spot in discussing 'narcolepsy'-are you a sufferer?

113

REVIEWS

AUDIO

Orchestral.

Chamber Music

Instrumental

117 Britain's first Compact Disc plant

128 -a report by John Borwick 169

Equipment Reviews:

132 Bose 901 Series V

Choral and Song

Opera

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138

146

Loudspeaker System 175 Bose Studiocraft Fl Power

Amplifier.

Sony CDP501 and CDP701

176

Cassette Commentary.

158

CD Players_

179

Beyer DT880 Headphones. 180

Nights at the Round Table 163 Heybrook TT2 Turntable 183 Easy Listening 164 New Products and Audio News 184

"FRONT COVER This month's front cover features the unique Nimbus plant at Wyastone Leys near Monmouth, site of Britain's first Compact Disc manufacturing facility John Borwick describes his visit to Nimbus on page 169

NEXT MONTH

Andrew Keener talks to Michael Berkeley about the EMI recording of his composition "Or shall we die"; to Barry Tuckwell about his new Decca recording of Mozart horn music and to William Christie about the Harmonia Mundi Medee. Charles Fox reviews the latest jazz records and John Borwick reviews the Tandberg 3012 amplifier

The August 1984 issue will be published on Wednesday August 1sl.

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