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Robert Layton 1930-2020

Posted by robertkeir (A) on November 19, 2020 at 15:54:55

I just learned today that Penguin author/contributor Robert Layton died earlier this month. He was the last of the three main contributors alive. March died a couple of years ago and Greenfield a few years before that. Together they produced the amazing, perhaps unique, perhaps indispensable, Penguin Stereo Record Guide. Over the years, the Penguin changed to include first cassettes and then CD's. It also expanded a great deal when the majors released more and more reissues as well as their new stuff, and smaller recording companies got in the game. Yes they had their biases especially toward British composers and conductors. (They also seemed to like almost everything HvK touched.)

I bought the first edition when it came out in 1975, the second in 1977, and most of the subsequent editions until about 1990 or so. After that I probably bought every other one until the 2008 edition. They were so very helpful in the early years when I was building my record collection. Toward the end of their run, I suppose, they had become less essential as the internet provided everyone with reviews from multiple sources. Nevertheless, I always kept the latest edition close by and consulted it frequently.

I still have all my old copies.

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