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JU~IE 1980 Vol. 58 No. 685 Publisher & Editor ANTHONY POLLARD Editorial Manager QUITA CHAVEZ Records Editor MALCOLM WALKER Audio Editor JOHN BORWICK Audio Consultant JOHN GILBERT Advertisement Co-ordinator DERMOT JONES Circulation Manager STEPHEN PRESCOTI Subscription Manager LILIAN SHERER Deputy Publisher & Advertisement Director BARRY IRVING CONTRIBUTORS NICHOLAS ANDERSON DENIS ARNOLD MARY BERRY ALAN BLYTH WILLIAM A CHISLETI JOAN CHISSELL JOHN DUARTE DAVID FALLOWS ROGER FISKE ROBIN GOLDING EDWARD GREENFIELD MAX HARRISON TREVOR HARVEY ANDREW LAMB ROBERT LAYTON MALCOLM MACDONALD WI LLiAM MAN N IV-AN MARCH MICHAEL OLIVER RICHARD OSBORNE STEPHEN PLAISTOW GORDON REYNOLDS STANLEY SADIE LIONEL SALTER JOHN STEANE JOHN WAR RACK STANLEY WEBB ARNOLD WHITIALL Incorporating CASSETTES & CARTRIDGES CONTENTS2IndextoReviews 2 New Record and Cassette Releases 4 Contributors' Notes 4 Correspondence 23 Here and There with Edward Greenfield, Carolyn Nott and Alan Sanders REVIEWS31Orchestral43ChamberMusic53Instrumental54ChoralandSong60Opera69NightsattheRound Table 70 Rock Albums AUDIO77SoundsinRetrospect-a panel review 78 High Fidelity 80-a report byJohn BOrwICk, John Gilbert and Geoffrey Horn Equipment Reviews : 91 Monitor Audio MA84 loudspeaker 91 Grundig CF5500 cassette recorder 93 Audio Diary 93 Audio News FRONT COVER This month 's front cover uses a ' still' from the late Sir Alfred Hitchcock's film North by Northwest which starred Cary Grant. A recording by Laurie Johnson of the late Bernard Herrmann 's musical score from thiS film is reviewed by Malcolm Macdonald on page 37 of this Issue Hand-coloured photo courtesy MGM NEXT MONTH A Quarterly Retrospect by John Steane Joh n Borwick reviews the Rogers A 100 stereo amplifier We wish to apologise to all readers that owing to circumstances beyond our control pub l ication of the May and June issues of GRAMOPHONE has been delayed . Copies of the May issue were scheduled for despatch last week, and whilst this June issue is a week late, and somewhat truncated, it is hoped that normal publication dates will be met in the near future. The July 1980 issue of GRAMOPHONE will be published on Wednesday July 2nd GRAMOPHONE is published by General Gramophone Publications Limited 177 -179 Kenton Road Harrow Middlesex HA3 OHA (telephone 01-907 4476) Trade Sales Counter 23-27 Tudor Street London EC4Y OHR (telephone 01-583 9199) GRAMOPHONE IS published on (he firsr Wednesday of each momh and is available from all newsagems and booksta/~s. Annual sUbscflpClons: see page 700; US air speeded rale S2 7 ·QO, second class poslage paid New York. US mallmg agems : Expedi(ers of (he PriMed Word LId.. 527 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10022. PriMed ,n England. Whils~ every effort has been made co ensure (he accurar:;y of sracem~nts w i th in this magazine. we cannot accept responsIbili ty for any errors or omissions, or for marrsrs arismg from cleflcal or primers' errors, or an advertIser no t compleeing his comract. I t is requested thar all leuers to the Editor requlf/'ng a personal reply should be accompanied by a stamped addressed envelope. Subscribers, both at home and abroad, are requ~sted ro adVIse chang.e of address derails to our Subscription Department at least fi ve weeks prior (0 the change becoming eifeclive. ISSN 00 17 -31 OX I!;; General Gramophone Pub lI cat Ions Ltd .-1980

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JU~IE 1980 Vol. 58 No. 685

Publisher & Editor ANTHONY POLLARD

Editorial Manager

QUITA CHAVEZ Records Editor MALCOLM WALKER

Audio Editor JOHN BORWICK Audio Consultant

JOHN GILBERT Advertisement Co-ordinator

DERMOT JONES Circulation Manager STEPHEN PRESCOTI Subscription Manager

LILIAN SHERER Deputy Publisher & Advertisement Director

BARRY IRVING

CONTRIBUTORS

NICHOLAS ANDERSON

DENIS ARNOLD

MARY BERRY ALAN BLYTH WILLIAM A CHISLETI

JOAN CHISSELL

JOHN DUARTE DAVID FALLOWS

ROGER FISKE ROBIN GOLDING EDWARD GREENFIELD

MAX HARRISON TREVOR HARVEY ANDREW LAMB ROBERT LAYTON MALCOLM MACDONALD

WI LLiAM MAN N

IV-AN MARCH MICHAEL OLIVER RICHARD OSBORNE STEPHEN PLAISTOW GORDON REYNOLDS

STANLEY SADIE LIONEL SALTER

JOHN STEANE JOHN WAR RACK STANLEY WEBB ARNOLD WHITIALL

Incorporating CASSETTES & CARTRIDGES

CONTENTS2IndextoReviews 2 New Record and Cassette Releases 4 Contributors' Notes 4 Correspondence 23 Here and There with Edward Greenfield, Carolyn Nott and Alan Sanders

REVIEWS31Orchestral43ChamberMusic53Instrumental54ChoralandSong60Opera69NightsattheRound Table 70 Rock Albums

AUDIO77SoundsinRetrospect-a panel review 78 High Fidelity 80-a report byJohn BOrwICk, John Gilbert and Geoffrey Horn

Equipment Reviews : 91 Monitor Audio MA84 loudspeaker 91 Grundig CF5500 cassette recorder 93 Audio Diary 93 Audio News

FRONT COVER This month 's front cover uses a ' still' from the late Sir Alfred Hitchcock's film North by Northwest which starred Cary Grant. A recording by Laurie Johnson of the late Bernard Herrmann 's musical score from thiS film is reviewed by Malcolm Macdonald on page 37 of this Issue Hand-coloured photo courtesy MGM

NEXT MONTH A Quarterly Retrospect by John Steane Joh n Borwick reviews the Rogers A 100 stereo amplifier

We wish to apologise to all readers that owing to circumstances beyond our control pub l ication of the May and June issues of GRAMOPHONE has been delayed . Copies of the May issue were scheduled for despatch last week, and whilst this June issue is a week late, and somewhat truncated, it is hoped that normal publication dates will be met in the near future.

The July 1980 issue of GRAMOPHONE will be published on Wednesday July 2nd

GRAMOPHONE is published by General Gramophone Publications Limited 177 -179 Kenton Road Harrow Middlesex HA3 OHA (telephone 01-907 4476) Trade Sales Counter 23-27 Tudor Street London EC4Y OHR (telephone 01-583 9199) GRAMOPHONE IS published on (he firsr Wednesday of each momh and is available from all newsagems and booksta/~s. Annual sUbscflpClons: see page 700; US air speeded rale S2 7 ·QO, second class poslage paid New York. US mallmg agems : Expedi(ers of (he PriMed Word LId.. 527 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10022. PriMed ,n England. Whils~ every effort has been made co ensure (he accurar:;y of sracem~nts w i th in this magazine. we cannot accept responsIbili ty for any errors or omissions, or for marrsrs arismg from cleflcal or primers' errors, or an advertIser no t compleeing his comract. I t is requested thar all leuers to the Editor requlf/'ng a personal reply should be accompanied by a stamped addressed envelope. Subscribers, both at home and abroad, are requ~sted ro adVIse chang.e of address derails to our Subscription Department at least fi ve weeks prior (0 the change becoming eifeclive. ISSN 00 17 -31 OX I!;; General Gramophone Pub lI cat Ions Ltd .-1980

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