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Posted by John Quinn I'm afraid I must disagree with the first paragraph of your posting. Until recently I have read Gramophone continuously for some 35 years and so far as I can recall they have never awarded star ratings for any aspect of a recording. Furthermore, if it is true or fair to say that their reviews emphasise the "hard" issues rather than the "soft" ones then that's something that has crept in in recent years. What I and other contributors to this debate have been saying, either explicity or implicitly, is that it is precisely the reduction in well informed comment and evaluation of both the music and the recorded performances that we miss in Gramophone these days. It follows from this that I - and I suspect all the others who have joined in this discussion - would agree with the very important point that you make in your final paragraph
on January 9, 2007, 5:11 pm, in reply to "Re: The Decline of Gramophone"
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