MAY 1983 Vol. 60 No. 720

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

LI LlAN SH ERER Deputy Publisher & Advertisement Director

BARRY IRVING

CONTRIBUTORS

NICHOLAS ANDERSON

DENIS ARNOLD

MARY BERRY ALAN BLYTH WILLIAM A CHISLETT

JOAN CH ISS ELL

JOHN DUARTE DAVID FALLOWS

lAIN FEI\JLON ROGER FISKE ROBIN GOLDING EDWARD GREENFIELD

MAX HARRISON TREVOR HARVEY GEOFFREY HORN

ANDREW LAMB ROBERT LAYTON MALCOLM MACDONALD

IVAN MARCH MICHAEL OLIVER RICHARD OSBORNE STEPH EN PLAISTOW GORDON REYNOLDS

STANLEY SADIE LION EL SALTER

JOHN STEANE JOHN WARRACK ARNOLD WHITTALL

tncorporating CASS ETTES & CARTR lOG ES

CONTENTS1230IndextoReviews1230NewRecordandCassetteReleases 1231 Editorial Notes 1231 Obituary 1232 Correspondence 1239 A Quarterly Retrospect by Robert layton 1241 The Brahms Edition 1244 Sir William Walton (1902-1983) 1249 Here and There with Alan Blyth, Richard Fairman, Edward Greenfield ,

Andrew Keener and Alan Sanders

REVIEWS125112681275128712941299129913001300130113051306

Orchestral Chamber Music Instrumental Choral and Song Opera Baroque Music on RCA Seon / TOl Decca Viva Some " Great Performances " from CBS Schnabel's Schubert Nights at the Round Table Cassette Commentary Jazz

AUDIO1308Commentary 1311 60 Years of GRAMOPHONE : the Acoust ic Era 1312 Audio News

Equipment Reviews: 1313 Technics 315 series System 3 1315 Celestion Ditton 100, 110 and 130 loudspeakers 1 31 5 QED Pro tech SP1 50 speaker protection system 1316 QED C38 loudspeaker cable 1316 New Product s

FRONT COVER Giu se ppe Sinopoli, the newly -appointed Principal Conductor of the Phil harmonia Orchestra , appears on this month's cover. He is interviewed on page 1249 by Edward Greenfield and his contributions to the Brahms Edition are reviewed on page 1243.

NEXT MONTH A major loudspeaker review features in the Audio section and next month's cover artist, Martyn Hill . is interviewed by Alan Blyth .

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