OCTOBER 1980 Vol. 58 No. 689
Publisher & Editor ANTHONY POLLARD
Editorial Manager
QUITA CHAVEZ
Audio Editor JOHN BORWICK
Audio Consultant
JOHN GILBERT
Advertisement Co-ordinator
DERMOT JONES
Circulation Manager STEPHEI\J PRESCOTI
Subscription Manager
LILIAN SHERER
Deputy Publisher & Advertisement Director
BARRY IRVII\JG
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
WILLIAM MANN
IVAN MARCH MICHAEL OLIVER RICHARD OSBORNE STEPHEN PLAISTOW GORDOI\J REYNOLDS
STANLEY SADIE LIONEL SALTER
JOHN STEANE JOHN WARRACK ARNOLD WHITIALL
Incorporating CASSETIES & CARTRIDGES
CONTENTS450450452452471479480
Index to Reviews New Record and Cassette Releases Editorial Notes Correspondence A Quarterly Retrospect by John Steane Krystian Zimerman in Munich by Robert Layton. Here and There with Gunther Breest. Bryan Crimp, Carolyn Nott and
Alan Sanders
REVIEWS487Orchestral 511 Chamber Music 517 Instrumental 523 Choral and Song 533 Opera 542 Schnabel's Beethoven 547 Imports-Reflexe Series 548 Cassette Commentary 553 Nights at the Round Table 554 Easy Listening
AUDIO560Commentary by John Borwick 563 Audio News 564 Harrogate Highlights 568 Audio Furniture : A Survey
Equipment Reviews : 572 Wharfedale Laser 200 and TSR 11 0 Loudspeakers 577 dbx Model 21 disc/tape decoder 578 Five Headphones in Review 584 New Products
FRONT COVER Herbert von Karajan conducts Mozart's Die Zauberfldte with Jose van Dam, Francisco Ar'aiza, Karin Ott, Edith Mathis, Gottfried Hornik and Janet Perry. Gunther Breest describes the recording sessions on page 480, and Edward Greenfield's review appears on page 534.
NEXT MONTH Another major Cassette Feature is planned for next month In which Robert Layton will review cassettes ideal for a basIc collection. Ivan March will survey the bargain and mid-price range and Mary Postgate will give a guide to spoken word cassettes . The feature will also include a review of the Nakamichi 582 cassette deck by John Borwick as well as a survey of blank cassettes . Other Audio reports will include the Akal PROSl System and a range of cartridges. The November 1980 issue of GRAMOPHONE will be published on Wednesday November 5th GRAMOPHONE is published by General Gramophone Publications Limited 177-179 Kenton Road Harrow Middlesex HA3 OHA (telephone 01-9074476) Trade Sales Coumer 23-2 7 Tudor Street London EC4Y OHR (telephone 01-5839199) GRAMOPHONE IS published on Ihe hrsl Wednesda y of each month and is available from all newsagenls and bookstalls. Annual subscriptions : see page 594. US air speeded rare 130·QO, second class postage paid New York. US mailing agenls: Expedilers of Ihe Printed Word Ltd.. 527 Madison Avenue, New York. NY 10022 . Printed In England by Warmoughs "Limited, Idle. Bradford: and London. Whilst every effor( has been made to ensure the accuracy of statements within th is magazine, we cannor accept responsibility for any errors or omissions, or for mauers arising from clerical or primers' errors, or an advertiser not completing his contract. I t is requested that all letters to the Editor requirmg a personal reply should be accompanied by a stamped addressed envelope. Subscribers. both at home and abroad. are reques ted to advise change of address details ro our Subscription Department at least five weeks prior (0 Ihe change becoming effeclive. ISSN 0017·310X © General Gramophone Pu blicatio ns Ltd -1980
