FEBRUARY 1978 Volume 55 No. 657

Publisher & Managing Editor

ANTHONY POLLARD

Editor

MALCOLM WALKER .

Deputy Ed i tor ROGER HUGHES

Audio Editor JOHN BORWICK Audio Consultant

JOHN GILBERT

Advertisement Co-ordinator

DERMOT JONES Accounts Manager CHRISTINE FLEGG Circulation Manager

HELEN GRIMES Subscri ption Manager

LILIAN SHERER Deputy Publisher & Advertisement Director

BARRY IRVING

CONTRIBUTORS

NICHOLAS ANDERSON

FELIX APRAHAMIAN

DENIS ARNOLD

MARY BERRY ALAN BLYTH WILLIAM A CHISLETT

JOAN CHISSELL

PETER FIELD ROGER FISKE CHARLES FOX ROBIN GOLDING EDWARD GREENFIELD

MAX HARRISON TREVOR HARVEY

NIGEL HUNTER ANDREW LAMB ROBERT LAYTON MALCOLM MACDONALD

WILLIAM MANN

IVAN MARCH ALUN MORGAN MICHAEL OLIVER RICHARD OSBORNE STEPHEN PLAISTOW

BRIAN RUST STANLEY SADIE LIONEL SALTER

ERIC SAMS JOHN STEANE JOHN WARRACK

STANLEY WEBB ARNOLD WHITTALL

Incorporating CASSETTES & CARTRIDGES

CONTENTS1352IndextoReviews1353NewRecordandCassetteReleases1379AQuarterlyRetrospectbyRobertLayton1381TheGramophoneCollection-No.5:Theorc hestral music of Elgar by Ivan March 1382 Contributors' Notes 1382 Editor ial Notes 1385 Claudio Arrau at 75-a birthday tribute by Richard Osborne 1389 Here and There with W. A Ch islett, Lew is Foreman and ·Carolyn Nott 1491 Correspondence . 1491 Book Reviews. 1491 Deletions

REVIEWS1393Orchestral1419ChamberMusic1426Instrumental1447ChoralandSong1456Opera1469NewCassettes1474NightsattheRo und Table 1489 Eas y Listening 1490 Jazz

AUDIO.1492Commentary by John Borwick 1497 Music off the Record by Clement Brown

Equipment Reviews : 1501 B&W DM710udspeaker by John Gilbert 1505 Ultimo 20A cartridge by John S. Wright 1506 Alpha CD-60 I cassette deck by Denys Killick 1507 Shure equalization system by John Gilbert 1508 Audio Circles 1509 Obituaries 1509 New Products 1510 Audio Forum 1510 AudioNews

FRONT COVER The Brazilian-born pianist Claudio Arrau celebrates his 75th birthday on February 6th; to commemorate the occasion Richard Osborne offers a tribute to the artist on page 1385 and there are reviews of new releases from Arrau in this issue

NEXT MONTH Gramophone Record Awards for 1977 Sounds in Retrospect-a panel review Geoffrey Horn takes a retrospective look at the Quad Electrostatic loudspeaker The March 1978 issue of GRAMOPHONE will be published on Wednesday March . Ist

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