MARCH 1980 Vol. 57 No. 682
Publisher & Editor ANTHONY POLLARD
Records Ed i tor MALCOLM WALKER
Audio Editor JOHN BORWICK ,,'
0,- Audio Consultant
JOHN GILBERT
Advertisement Co-ordinator
DERMOT JONES
Circulation Manager STEPHEN PRESCOTT
Subscription Manager
UUAN SHERER
Deputy Publisher & Advertisement Director
BARRY IRVING
CONTRIBUTORS
NICHOLAS ANDERSON
DENIS ARNOLD
MARY BERRY ALAN BLYTH WILUAM 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 GORDON REYNOLDS
STANLEY SADIE LIONEL SALTER
JOHN STEANE jOHNWARRACK
STANLEY WEBB ARNOLD WHITTALL
Incorporating CASSETIES & CARTRIDGES
1374 1374 1374
CONTENTS13381338134013581367
Index to . Reviews New Record and Cassette Releases Correspondence Gramophone Record Awards 1979 Here and There with Brya n Crimp. David Gillard. Carolyn Nott. joe Pengelly and Alan Sanders Obituary Contributors' Notes Editori al Notes
REVIEWS13791398141114241434 1446 1449 1453
Orchestral Chamber Music Instru mental Choral and Song Opera Cassette Commentary Nights at the Round Table Rock Album Rev ie ws
AUDIO1454
Sounds in Retrospect-a panel review Equipment Reviews:
1460 1460 1465 1466 1469 1471 1472 1472
Audio-Technica ATIIOO pickup arm by john Borwick Audio-Technica AT6006 Safety Raiser by John Borwick Hafler DH-200 power amplifier by John Gilbert ADC ZLM "Improved" pickup cartridge by john S, Wright Aurex Micro Component Systems 10 and 12 by Geoffrey Horn New Products Audio News Audio Diary
FRONT COVER A s ix-page feature devoted to the Gramophone Record Awards for 1979, se lect e d by the critics o f thi s magazine, can be found on pages 1358-63
NEXT MONTH A Quarterly Retrospect by John Steane An interview with Riccardo Muti In a special cassette feature Ivan March, Robert Layton and Edward Greenfield look at the repertoire position; John Borwick writes on the technical situation and includes a report on the novel B & 0 Beocord 8000 cassette deck; John Gilbert visits a tape duplicating plant, Audio reports on the Sony MRD-3 headphones, the Dual CS626 turntable and the JVC Zero 5 loudspeakers The April 1980 issue of GRAMOPHONE will be published on Wednesday April 2 nd 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 (irs! Wednesdoy of each momh and is available (rom all newsagencs and bookstalls. Annual subscriptions: see Page 1480; US ojr speeded rate 12 7 '00, second class postage paid New York. US mailing QKents: E)(oediters of (he Printed Word Ltd .. 527 Madison Avenue. New York. NY 10022. Printed in England. Whilst every effort has been made [0 ensure the accuracy of stoCemenrs within this magazine. we cannot accept resPonsibiliry (or any errors or omissions. or for marters arising from clerical or printers' errors, or an advertiser not comPleting his contract. It is reQuested that all fetters to the Editor reauiring 0 personal reply should be accomDanied by a stamoed addressed envelooe. Subscribers, boch at home and abroad, are reouested to advise change o( address details to our Subscrjotion Departm ent ot leost five weeks Prior to the chonge becoming effective, ISSN OO17-310X © "Gramoohone"-1980
