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

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Di sc Player

640 Two Goldring Cartridges

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B & W DM330 Loudspeaker 692

658 New Produc ts

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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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