OPHONE Incorporating CASSETTES & CARTRIDGES
November 1984 Vol. 62 No, 738
co ·NT .E N .T S
INDEX TO REVIEWS-including Charpentier's Medee and Bach' s Partitas played by Andras Schiff. .
NEW RELEASES
CORRESPONDENCE
NEWS & VIEWS-ASMF at 25, Faure's Chamber
Requiem, Sir Charles Grove's Black Knight and Gramophone Record Awards .
QUARTERLY RETROSPECT-R o bert La yton on the march of CD
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REVIEWS
Orchestral .
Chamber Mus'lc
Instrumental .
Choral and Song
Opera
Cassette Commentary ..
AUDIO
599 CD Care-Michael Sykes invest igates
618 Heathr ow Show report.
Dusseldorf Show report.
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627 Equipment Reviews
Technics RSB -1 00
634
Cassette Deck . Philip s CD104 Compact
685
Di sc Player
640 Two Goldring Cartridges
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B & W DM330 Loudspeaker 692
658 New Produc ts
695
FRONT COVER
Carlo Maria Giulini appears on this month's fr on t cover and his new record ing of Verdi's /I Trovatore is reviewed by Alan Bl yth on page 651
Photog rap hed by Rein ha rt Wolf, Hambu rg
NEXT MONTH
Cr i tics' Choice 1984-Gramophone crit ics c hoose their fa vou rite record s of the yea r. The December 1984 issue w ill be published on Wednesday November 28th .
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