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OPHONE Incorporating CASS ETTES & CARTR IDG ES JULY 1984 Vol. 62 No. 734 CONTENTSINDEXTOREVIEWS-IncludingKarajan'sCDonlyMahlerNinerecorded live at the Berlin Festival in 1982-"one of the seven wonders of the modern musical world". 98 NEW RELEASES-LP, Compact Disc and Cassette releases for July 98 CORRESPONDENCE-Thoughts on Compact Disc from three English counties and California, and a reader from Wolverhampton complains of a local cassette shortage. 99 NEWS & VIEWS-EMI's ICRC on parade, and interviews with Mitsuko Uchida and John Wallace 101 QUARTER LY RETROSPECT-John Steane touches a tender spot in discussing 'narcolepsy'-are you a sufferer? 113 REVIEWS AUDIO Orchestral. Chamber Music Instrumental 117 Britain's first Compact Disc plant 128 -a report by John Borwick 169 Equipment Reviews: 132 Bose 901 Series V Choral and Song Opera . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . 138 146 Loudspeaker System 175 Bose Studiocraft Fl Power Amplifier. Sony CDP501 and CDP701 176 Cassette Commentary. 158 CD Players_ 179 Beyer DT880 Headphones. 180 Nights at the Round Table 163 Heybrook TT2 Turntable 183 Easy Listening 164 New Products and Audio News 184 "FRONT COVER This month's front cover features the unique Nimbus plant at Wyastone Leys near Monmouth, site of Britain's first Compact Disc manufacturing facility John Borwick describes his visit to Nimbus on page 169 NEXT MONTH Andrew Keener talks to Michael Berkeley about the EMI recording of his composition "Or shall we die"; to Barry Tuckwell about his new Decca recording of Mozart horn music and to William Christie about the Harmonia Mundi Medee. Charles Fox reviews the latest jazz records and John Borwick reviews the Tandberg 3012 amplifier The August 1984 issue will be published on Wednesday August 1sl. Published by General Gramophone Publications Ltd, 177 /9. Kenton Road. Harrow, Middlesex HA3 OHA. Telephone 01-9074476. Publisher & Editor. ANTHONY POLLARD; Deputy Publisher & Advertisement Director. BARRY IRVING Editorial Manager. CHRISTOPHER POLLARD; Consultant to the Editorial Department. QUITA CHAVEZ; Audio Editor. JOHN BORWICK; Audio Consultant. JOHN G,LBERT; Advertisement Co-ordinator, DERMOT JONES; Circulation Manager. STEPHEN PREscon; Subscription Manager. LILIAN SHERER GRAMOPHONE is published on the Wednesday nearest to the 7st of each month and is available from all newsagents and bookstalls. Annual subscriptIOns' see page 792: US air speeded rate $33·20. second class postage paid New York. US mailing agents: Expediters of the Printed Word Ltd.. 515 Madison Avenue. New York. NY 10022. Printed in England bV Watmoughs Limited, Idle. Bradford: and London. Whilst every effort has been made to ensure the accuracy of statements within this magazine. we cannot accept responsibilitv for any errors or omissions, or for matters arising from clerical or printers' errors. or an advertiser not completing his contract. I t is requested that all letters to the Editor requiring a personal replv should be accompanied bV a stamped addressed envelope. Subscribers. both al home and abroad, are requested to advise change of address details to our Subscription Department at least five weeks prior to the change becoming effective. ISSN 007 7-310X © General Gramophone Publications Ltd-7 984

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OPHONE Incorporating CASS ETTES & CARTR IDG ES

JULY 1984 Vol. 62 No. 734

CONTENTSINDEXTOREVIEWS-IncludingKarajan'sCDonlyMahlerNinerecorded live at the Berlin Festival in 1982-"one of the seven wonders of the modern musical world".

98

NEW RELEASES-LP, Compact Disc and Cassette releases for July 98 CORRESPONDENCE-Thoughts on Compact Disc from three English counties and California, and a reader from Wolverhampton complains of a local cassette shortage.

99

NEWS & VIEWS-EMI's ICRC on parade, and interviews with

Mitsuko Uchida and John Wallace

101

QUARTER LY RETROSPECT-John Steane touches a tender spot in discussing 'narcolepsy'-are you a sufferer?

113

REVIEWS

AUDIO

Orchestral.

Chamber Music

Instrumental

117 Britain's first Compact Disc plant

128 -a report by John Borwick 169

Equipment Reviews:

132 Bose 901 Series V

Choral and Song

Opera

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . .

138

146

Loudspeaker System 175 Bose Studiocraft Fl Power

Amplifier.

Sony CDP501 and CDP701

176

Cassette Commentary.

158

CD Players_

179

Beyer DT880 Headphones. 180

Nights at the Round Table 163 Heybrook TT2 Turntable 183 Easy Listening 164 New Products and Audio News 184

"FRONT COVER This month's front cover features the unique Nimbus plant at Wyastone Leys near Monmouth, site of Britain's first Compact Disc manufacturing facility John Borwick describes his visit to Nimbus on page 169

NEXT MONTH

Andrew Keener talks to Michael Berkeley about the EMI recording of his composition "Or shall we die"; to Barry Tuckwell about his new Decca recording of Mozart horn music and to William Christie about the Harmonia Mundi Medee. Charles Fox reviews the latest jazz records and John Borwick reviews the Tandberg 3012 amplifier

The August 1984 issue will be published on Wednesday August 1sl.

Published by General Gramophone Publications Ltd, 177 /9. Kenton Road. Harrow, Middlesex HA3 OHA. Telephone 01-9074476.

Publisher & Editor. ANTHONY POLLARD; Deputy Publisher & Advertisement Director. BARRY IRVING Editorial Manager. CHRISTOPHER POLLARD; Consultant to the Editorial Department. QUITA CHAVEZ; Audio Editor. JOHN BORWICK; Audio Consultant. JOHN G,LBERT; Advertisement Co-ordinator, DERMOT JONES; Circulation Manager. STEPHEN PREscon; Subscription Manager. LILIAN SHERER

GRAMOPHONE is published on the Wednesday nearest to the 7st of each month and is available from all newsagents and bookstalls. Annual subscriptIOns' see page 792: US air speeded rate $33·20. second class postage paid New York. US mailing agents: Expediters of the Printed Word Ltd.. 515 Madison Avenue. New York. NY 10022. Printed in England bV Watmoughs Limited, Idle. Bradford: and London. Whilst every effort has been made to ensure the accuracy of statements within this magazine. we cannot accept responsibilitv for any errors or omissions, or for matters arising from clerical or printers' errors. or an advertiser not completing his contract. I t is requested that all letters to the Editor requiring a personal replv should be accompanied bV a stamped addressed envelope. Subscribers. both al home and abroad, are requested to advise change of address details to our Subscription Department at least five weeks prior to the change becoming effective. ISSN 007 7-310X © General Gramophone Publications Ltd-7 984

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