OPHONE Incorporating CASSETTES & CARTRI.DGES

November 1985 Vol. 63 No. 750

C 0 N"T E ·N T S INDEX TO REVIEWS-including Giuseppe Sinopoli's new recording of

Mahler"s Fifth Symphony. a Nielsen Fourth from Simon Rattle and his Birmingham orchestra and Mariss Jansons's Tchaikovsky"s First Symphony. Robert Layton welcomes a reissue of Beethoven chamber music with the Busch Quartet. 578 NEW RELEASES .. 579 CORRESPONDENCE-including more thoughts of record outlets, an historical l ink between Proust and the Capet Quartet and a plea for more Arne on record. 581 NEWS & VIEWS-photographs from the 1985 Gramophone Record Awards,

a session report from Munich by Alan Blyth and an interview with Mischa Maisky 583 FEATURE-Edward Greenfield talks to Jan Timmer, President of PolyGram

International who shares his thoughts on the Compact Disc

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FEATURE-"A Sound Philosophy" Brian Couzens, founder and Managing

Director of Chandos Records talks about his company's development. 602 FEATU RE-Edward Greenfield reports from the sessions in Rome for

Sinopoli's new Riga/etta.

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QUARTERLY RETROSPECT-Robert Layton considers the quarter"s orchestral, chamber and instrumental records, and confesses to ambivalent feelings towards Klemperer"s interpretations 613

REVIEWS

AUDIO

Orchestral.

Chamber . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Instrumental

618 The Hi-Fi Show

641 Meet the manufacturer

657 Michael Sykes visits OED

Choral and Song

Opera.

.. 664 The Berlin Show

672 John Gilbert reports.

Brief Reviews.

683 Equipment Reviews

Nights at the Round Table

Classical Pops

Spoken Word

OED Audio System

687 Three Sony CD Players

687 JVC HR-D725EK VHS Hi-Fi

Stage and Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . .. .. 688 Video Recorder

Brass & Military

688 Four KEF Loudspeakers.

Cassette Commentary

693 New Products.

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FRONT COVER

This month's cover-A Scene on the Ice near Dordrecht (detail) by Janvan Goyen (reproduced by courtesy of the Trustees, The National Gallery, London)-is also featured on the sleeve of the new Chandos release of Tchaikovsky's First Symphony conducted by Mariss Jansons.

NEXT MONTH

Next month's cover will herald the Gramophone Critics' Choice-each of our reviewers selects their favourite six records of the year Also next month, Alan Blyth reviews DG's new Don Car/os conducted by Claudio Abbado, and Roger Fiske reviews Philips's new S%man directed by John Eliot Gardiner. The December 1985 issue will be published on Wednesday December 4th.

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