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OCTOBER 1979 Vol. 57 No. 677 Publisher & Managing Editor ANTHONY POLLARD Editor MALCOLM WALKER Assistant Editor PAUL HOLMES 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 CHISLETI 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 JVIICHAEL OLIVER RICHARD OSBORNE · STEPHEN PLAISTOW STANLEY SADIE LIONEL SALTER JOHN STEANE JOHN WARRACK STANLEY WEBB ARNOLD WHITIALL Incorporating CASSETIES & CARTRIDGES CONTENTS 564 Index to Reviews 565 New Record and Cassette Releases 587 A Quarterly Retrospect by John Steane 593 "Lulu"-a pre-production diary by Gunther Breest 594 Correspondence 603 The Gramophone Collection-The Music of Johann Strauss by Andrew Lamb 611 Here and There with Alan Blyth, Edward Greenfield, Nigel Hunter, Michael Oliver, Elaine Robertson and Alan Sanders 566 Editorial Notes 719 Book Reviews REVIEWS624Orchestral662ChamberMusic671Instrumental685ChoralandSong694Opera720NightsattheRound Table 725 Jazz 727 Cassette Commentary by Geoffrey Horn AUDIO728Commentary The two children - see page 703 729 Harrogate plus Berlin-a report on the two shows 734 Audio Diary Equipment Reviews: 737 Shure M95HE cartridge by John Borwick 737 Panasonic SG6070 music centre by Geoffrey Horn 739 Micro-Seiki DQX-SOO turntable by John Borwick 740 Audio Forum 741 New Products FRONT COVER The first-ever recording of Berg's opera Lulu in its three-act version is released this month and reviewed on page 694: in addition to a background article on the recording by the producer GUnther Breest (on page 593), there is also an interview (on page 611) with Teresa Stratas who sings the t i t le-role in this new version . NEXT MONTH A Quarterly Retrospect by Robert Layton Interviews with Alfred Brendel and Riccardo Chailly The Gramophone Collection-the operas of Wagner John Borwick reviews the JR Loudspeakers EX I Super Woofer System The November 1979 issue of GRAMOPHONE will be published on Wednesday November 7th 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 01-5839199) GRAMOPHONE is published on the first Wednesday of each month and is available (rom a/J newsagenls and bookstalls. Annual subscriptions: see page 749: US air speeded (are $27- 00. second closs postage paid New York. US mailing agents: Expediters of the Printed Word l td .. 527 Madison Avenue, New York. NY 10022. Printed in England. Whilst every effort has been made to ensure the aCcuracy of statements wirhin this magazine. we cannol acceOt responsibility for any errors or omissions. or for marters arising (rom clerical or printers' errors, or an advertiser not compleling his contract. It is reauested thot all letters to [he Editor reauiring a oersonal reply should be accomOanied by a stamoed addressed enveloo~. Subscribers. both at home and abroad. are reauested to advise change of address details to our SubscriPtion DePortment at 'east five weeks orior to the chan"e becoming effective. ISSN 001 7-3 lOX © "Gramophone"-1979

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OCTOBER 1979 Vol. 57 No. 677

Publisher & Managing Editor

ANTHONY POLLARD

Editor

MALCOLM WALKER

Assistant Editor PAUL HOLMES

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 CHISLETI

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 JVIICHAEL OLIVER RICHARD OSBORNE · STEPHEN PLAISTOW

STANLEY SADIE LIONEL SALTER

JOHN STEANE JOHN WARRACK

STANLEY WEBB ARNOLD WHITIALL

Incorporating CASSETIES & CARTRIDGES

CONTENTS

564 Index to Reviews 565 New Record and Cassette Releases 587 A Quarterly Retrospect by John Steane 593 "Lulu"-a pre-production diary by Gunther Breest 594 Correspondence 603 The Gramophone Collection-The Music of Johann Strauss by Andrew

Lamb 611 Here and There with Alan Blyth, Edward Greenfield, Nigel Hunter,

Michael Oliver, Elaine Robertson and Alan Sanders 566 Editorial Notes 719 Book Reviews

REVIEWS624Orchestral662ChamberMusic671Instrumental685ChoralandSong694Opera720NightsattheRound Table 725 Jazz 727 Cassette Commentary by Geoffrey Horn

AUDIO728Commentary

The two children - see page 703

729 Harrogate plus Berlin-a report on the two shows 734 Audio Diary

Equipment Reviews: 737 Shure M95HE cartridge by John Borwick 737 Panasonic SG6070 music centre by Geoffrey Horn 739 Micro-Seiki DQX-SOO turntable by John Borwick 740 Audio Forum 741 New Products

FRONT COVER The first-ever recording of Berg's opera Lulu in its three-act version is released this month and reviewed on page 694: in addition to a background article on the recording by the producer GUnther Breest (on page 593), there is also an interview (on page 611) with Teresa Stratas who sings the t i t le-role in this new version .

NEXT MONTH A Quarterly Retrospect by Robert Layton Interviews with Alfred Brendel and Riccardo Chailly The Gramophone Collection-the operas of Wagner John Borwick reviews the JR Loudspeakers EX I Super Woofer System The November 1979 issue of GRAMOPHONE will be published on Wednesday November 7th

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 01-5839199) GRAMOPHONE is published on the first Wednesday of each month and is available (rom a/J newsagenls and bookstalls. Annual subscriptions: see page 749: US air speeded (are $27- 00. second closs postage paid New York. US mailing agents: Expediters of the Printed Word l td .. 527 Madison Avenue, New York. NY 10022. Printed in England. Whilst every effort has been made to ensure the aCcuracy of statements wirhin this magazine. we cannol acceOt responsibility for any errors or omissions. or for marters arising (rom clerical or printers' errors, or an advertiser not compleling his contract. It is reauested thot all letters to [he Editor reauiring a oersonal reply should be accomOanied by a stamoed addressed enveloo~. Subscribers. both at home and abroad. are reauested to advise change of address details to our SubscriPtion DePortment at 'east five weeks orior to the chan"e becoming effective. ISSN 001 7-3 lOX © "Gramophone"-1979

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