JUNE 1981 Vol. 59 No. 697

Publisher & Editor ANTHONY POLLARD

Editorial Manager

QUITA CHAVEZ

Audio Editor JOHN BORWICK

Audio Consultant

JOHN GILBERT

Advertisement Co-ordinator

DERMOT JONES

Circulation Manager STEPHEN PRESCOTT

Subscription Manager

LILIAN SHERER

Deputy Publisher & Advertisement Director

BARRY IRVING

CONTRIBUTORS

NICHOLAS ANDERSON

DENIS ARI\JOLD

MARY BERRY ALAN BLYTH WILLIAM A CHISLETT

JOAN CHISSELL

JOHN DUARTE DAVI D FALLOWS

lAIN FENLON ROGER FISKE ROBIN GOLDING EDWARD GREENFIELD

MAX HARRISON TREVOR HARVEY GEOFFREY HORN 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 ARNOLD WHITTALL

Incorporating CASSETTES & CARTRIDGES

CONTENTS

2 Index to Reviews 3 New Reco rd and Ca ss ette Releases 4 Editorial Notes 4 Correspondence 23 Gramophone Perspecti ve: Jessye Norman by Richard Osbo rne 24 Here and There wi th DaVid Barnard . John Borwlck. Andrew Keener,

Carolyn Nott. Alan Sanders and John Steane

REVIEWS33Orchestral46ChamberMusic56Instrumental66ChoralandSong81Opera84HistoricalVocal89NightsattheRound Table 97 Video Report 98 Bookshelf

AUDIO103Soundsin Retrospect- a panel review 104 " High Fidelity 81 " -a report by Joh n Gilbert and Geoffrey Horn

Equipment Reviews 108 SIX Cartridges in ReView 111 Technics SB-5 loudspeaker 112 New Products

FRONT COVER Lydia Artymlw appears on this month's front cover (photo: Christian Steiner). Her second record for Chandos is reviewed on page 62. and she is interviewed by Carolyn Noll In "Here and There " on page 24. In " Bookshelf " on page 98 Michael Oliver presents the first of a series of regular quarterly round-ups of books connected with mu sic . musician s and recording The Audio sectio n this month devo tes over three pages to reviews of six cartridges.

NEXT MONTH Alan Blyth in ter views Sir Colin Davis for a " Gramophone Persp ective " feature in which Sir Colin discusses his career, and especially his involvement in opera . The products reviewed by ou r Audio tea m include t he Quad ESL-63 loud spe ake r. the Marantz PM-6 amplifier and the Audio-Linear TD400 1SP turntable .

The Jul y 1981 issue o f GRAMOPHONE will be published on Wednesday July 1st

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