SEPTEMBER 1979 Vol. 57 No. 676

Publisher & Managing Editor

ANTHONY POLLARD

Editor

MALCOLM WALKER

Assistant Editor PAUL HOLI"IES

Audio Editor JOHN BORWICK Audio Consultant

JOHN GILBERT

Advertisement Co-ordinator

DERMOT JONES Circulation Manager STEPHEN PRESCOTT Subscription Manager

LILIAN SHERER Deputy Publisher & Advertisement Director

BARRY IRVING

CONTRIBUTORS

NICHOLAS ANDERSON

DENIS ARNOLD

MARY BERRY ALAN BLYTH WILLIAM A CHISLETT

JOAN CHISSELL MARTIN COOPER

JOHN DUARTE 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 WHITTALL

Incorporating CASSETIES & CARTRIDGES

CONTENTS

Index to Reviews 406 406 408 429

New Record and Cassette Releases Editorial Notes The Gramophone Collection-The Solo Piano Works of Liszt by

Max Harrison Correspondence 430 435 Here and There with Alan Blyth, W. A. Chislett, Edward Greenfield and Carolyn Nott 448 Obituary

REVIEWS453Orchestral478ChamberMusic484Instrumental488ChoralandSong507Opera525NightsattheRound Table 526 Easy Listen ing 533 Cassette commentary

AUDIO

The founder of the "Proms" - see page 477

539 Sounds in Retrospect-a panel review 545 Report from America by Harry E. Maynard 546 Audio News

Equipment Reviews: 549 Technics RS-1500 US tape recorder by John Borwick 550 Phil i ps AF977 automatic record player by Geoffrey Horn 551 Tensai TR-I 030 stereo receiver by John Borwick 552 New Products

FRONT COVER Three new recordings conducted by Sir Georg Solti are released this month-the four Bra hms symphonies (reviewed on page 459), Brahms's Ein deutsches Requiem (reviewed on page 495) and Mozart's Don Giovanni (reviewed on page 517): in addition there is an interview with the conductor on page 435

NEXT MONTH A Quarterly Retrospect by John Steane The Gram op hone Collection-the music of Johann Strauss II An interview w ith Teresa Stratas A report on the Harrogate Audio Show The October 1979 iss ue of GRAMOPHONE w ill be published on Wednesday October 3rd

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