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The pre-eminent pick-up arm Whilst able to explore the best of the present, the Series III precision pick-up arm anticipates the greater engineering elegance of impending miniature cartridges which may weigh as l i ttle as one and a half grammes. Its unique patented balance system minimises mass and inertia, presenting optimum conditions for even the most delicate transducer. No other.pick-up arm is as versatile, a reason why. the Series III is already playing its part in the development of tomorrow's cartridges . Choose i t for your listening pleasure today with confidence in the future . COVER n *Another accolade for SME: the Series / I I precision pick-up arm was one of the Design and Engineering Awards at the 1979 U.S Summer Consumer Electronics Show, the only pick-up arm to be acknowledged in this way. Series I I I precision pick-up arm The best pick - up arm in the world Write to Dept 0455, SME Limited , Steyning, Sussex, BN4 3GY, England GRAMOPHONE
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DECEMBER 1979 Vol. 57 No. 679 Publisher & Managing Editor ANTHONY POLLARD Ed i tor MALCOLM WALKER Aud io Ed i tor JOHN BORWICK Audio Consultant JOHN GILBERT Advertisement Co-ordinator DERMOT JONES Circulation Manager STEPHEN PRESCOTT ~ubscription Manager LILIAN SHERER lJeputy Publisher & Advertisement Director BARRY IRVING CONTRIBUTORS NICHOLAS ANDERSON DENIS ARNOLD MARY BERRY ALAN BLYTH WILLIAM 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 STANLEY SADIE LIONEL SALTER JOHN STEANE JOHN WARRACK STANLEY WEBB ARNOLD WHITTALL Incorporating CASSETTES & CARTRIDGES CONTENTS950IndextoReviews 950 New Record and Cassette Releases 952 Contri butors' Notes 952 Ed i torial Notes 952 Correspondence 969 The Critics' Choice 1979 983 The Gramophone Collection-The Orchestral Music of Richard Strauss by Ivan March 989 Here and There with Wilson Lyle, Ivan March, Ro ~ ert C. Marsh, Alan Sanders and Robin Stringer REVIEWS10021024102710331039104010561056106110621065 Orchestral Chamber Music Instrumental .Choral and Song Gregorian Chant Opera Spoken Word Carols Nights at the Round Table Rock album reviews Cassette Commentary by John Borwick AUDIO1066Sounds in Retrospect-a panel review 1078 New Products 1083 Accessories for Christmas Equipment Rev iews: 1084 Teac A-300 cassette deck by John ~orwick 1089 Five moving-coil cartridges in review by John Borwick (Audio Technica AT30E; Mayware MC-2C; Satin M-117Z; Ultimo 30A; Westrak 50 I IE) 1093 Castle Kendal II loudspeaker by John Gil bert 1094 Audio News FRONT COVER The Critics' Choice for 1979 highlights . on page 969. some 200 recordings released during the year: in addition recent Christmas music is surveyed on page 1056 and a selection of audio accessories :: 'r Christmas are discussed on page 1083. Front cover photo by j. E. Aitken NEXT MONTH A Quarterly Retrospect by john Steane Inter v iews with Michael Tilson Thomas and Roger Woodward Geoffrey Horn reviews B&W 80 I loudspeaker The january 1980 issue of GRAMOPHONE wi ll be published on Wednesday january 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 01-5839199) GRAMOPHONE is Dubl ished on the first Wednesday of each month and is ava ilable (rom 0/1 newsagents and booksta}/s. Annual subscription s: see t>age 1106: US air speeded rate s 27 ·00, second class postage Daid New York. US mail;n~ agents: Expediters of [he Printed Word Lrd .. 527 Madison Avenue . New York. NY 10022. Printed in England. Whilst every efforr has been mode to ensure (he accurocy o( sratements wi thin this magazine. we canno( accept respons ibility (or any errors or om issions. or (or morters arising (rom clerical or printers' errors. or an advertiser nor completing his contract. It is reauested tho( 01/ leaers {o the Editor reauirin~ a oersonol reply should be accompan ied by a stamped addressed envelOPe. Subscribers. both or hom e and abroad. ore reaue s ted to advise change of address details to our SubscriPtion Det>afcmeM or least five weeks Drior [0 [he change becomin g effective. ISSN OO17-310X ©"GramoDhone"-1979

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DECEMBER 1979 Vol. 57 No. 679

Publisher & Managing Editor

ANTHONY POLLARD

Ed i tor

MALCOLM WALKER

Aud io Ed i tor JOHN BORWICK

Audio Consultant

JOHN GILBERT

Advertisement Co-ordinator

DERMOT JONES

Circulation Manager STEPHEN PRESCOTT

~ubscription Manager

LILIAN SHERER

lJeputy Publisher & Advertisement Director

BARRY IRVING

CONTRIBUTORS

NICHOLAS ANDERSON

DENIS ARNOLD

MARY BERRY ALAN BLYTH WILLIAM 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

STANLEY SADIE LIONEL SALTER

JOHN STEANE JOHN WARRACK

STANLEY WEBB ARNOLD WHITTALL

Incorporating CASSETTES & CARTRIDGES

CONTENTS950IndextoReviews 950 New Record and Cassette Releases 952 Contri butors' Notes 952 Ed i torial Notes 952 Correspondence 969 The Critics' Choice 1979 983 The Gramophone Collection-The Orchestral Music of Richard Strauss by Ivan March 989 Here and There with Wilson Lyle, Ivan March, Ro ~ ert C. Marsh,

Alan Sanders and Robin Stringer

REVIEWS10021024102710331039104010561056106110621065

Orchestral Chamber Music Instrumental .Choral and Song Gregorian Chant Opera Spoken Word Carols Nights at the Round Table Rock album reviews Cassette Commentary by John Borwick

AUDIO1066Sounds in Retrospect-a panel review 1078 New Products 1083 Accessories for Christmas

Equipment Rev iews: 1084 Teac A-300 cassette deck by John ~orwick 1089 Five moving-coil cartridges in review by John Borwick (Audio

Technica AT30E; Mayware MC-2C; Satin M-117Z; Ultimo 30A; Westrak 50 I IE) 1093 Castle Kendal II loudspeaker by John Gil bert 1094 Audio News

FRONT COVER The Critics' Choice for 1979 highlights . on page 969. some 200 recordings released during the year: in addition recent Christmas music is surveyed on page 1056 and a selection of audio accessories :: 'r Christmas are discussed on page 1083. Front cover photo by j. E. Aitken

NEXT MONTH A Quarterly Retrospect by john Steane Inter v iews with Michael Tilson Thomas and Roger Woodward Geoffrey Horn reviews B&W 80 I loudspeaker The january 1980 issue of GRAMOPHONE wi ll be published on Wednesday january 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 01-5839199) GRAMOPHONE is Dubl ished on the first Wednesday of each month and is ava ilable (rom 0/1 newsagents and booksta}/s. Annual subscription s: see t>age 1106: US air speeded rate s 27 ·00, second class postage Daid New York. US mail;n~ agents: Expediters of [he Printed Word Lrd .. 527 Madison Avenue . New York. NY 10022. Printed in England. Whilst every efforr has been mode to ensure (he accurocy o( sratements wi thin this magazine. we canno( accept respons ibility (or any errors or om issions. or (or morters arising (rom clerical or printers' errors. or an advertiser nor completing his contract. It is reauested tho( 01/ leaers {o the Editor reauirin~ a oersonol reply should be accompan ied by a stamped addressed envelOPe. Subscribers. both or hom e and abroad. ore reaue s ted to advise change of address details to our SubscriPtion Det>afcmeM or least five weeks Drior [0 [he change becomin g effective. ISSN OO17-310X ©"GramoDhone"-1979

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