FEBRUARY 1979 Vol. 56 No. 669

Publ isher & Managing Ed i tor

ANTHONY POLLARD

Editor

MALCOLM WALKER

Assistant Ed i tor ALAN SANDERS

Audio Editor JOHN BORWICK

Audio Consultant

JOHN GILBERT

Advertisement Co-ord inator

DERMOT JONES

Subscription 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 MARTIN COOPER DAVID FALLOWS

ROGER FISKE ROBIN GOLDING EDWARD GREENFIELD

MAX HARRISON TREVOR HARVEY

ANDREW LAMB ROBERT LAYTON MALCOLM MACDONALD

WILLIAM MANN

IVAN MARCH MICHAEL OLIVER RICHARD OSBORNE STEPHEN PLAISTOW

STANLEY SADIE LIONEL SALTER

JOHN STEANE JOHN WARRACK

STANLEY WEBB ARNOLD WHITIALL

Incorporating CASSETTES & CARTRIDGES

CONTENTS

Index to Reviews New Record and Cassette Reviews Contributors' Notes Deletions

1366 1366 1368 1368 1387 1393 A Quarterly Retrospect by Robert Layton The Gramophone Collection-The orchestral music of Dvorak by

Ivan March Correspondence 1394 1395

1503 Here and There with Alan Blyth, W. A. Chislett, Carolyn Nott, Richard Osborne, Robin Stringer and Malcolm Wal ker Ed i torial· Notes

REVIEWS1408Orchestral1435ChamberMusic1440Instrumental1447ChoralandSong1460GregorianChant1460Opera1472NewCassettes1474N~htsattheRound Table 1486 Rock albums

AUDIO1492Commentary by John Borwick 1495 Audio News

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1496 1499 1500 1501 1502 1503

Equipment Reviews:

Goodmans Achromat loudspeakers by john Gilbert Mayware Formula 4 Mark III pickup arm by John Borwick Elite ·EEI cartridge by john Borwick Audio Diary New Products Audio Forum

FRONT COVER During this month the Concertgebouw Orchestra with their Musical Director, Bernard Haitink, will be touring in the UK . To mark the occasion there are releases of the complete Mahler symphonies (reviewed on page 1434) and a Debussy disc (reviewed on page 1416)

NEXT MONTH Full details of the Gramophone Record Awards 1978 Bernard Haitink at 50-an appraisal by Edward Greenfield The Gramophone Collection-an introduction to Lieder John Borwick reviews the KEF Celesteflll loudspeaker

The March 1979 issue of GRAMOPHONE will be published on Wednesday March 7th

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