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...worries about every move. Says he: "I have to buy heel heights, colors and styles long in advance of the season, and be at the fashion whim of customers. The odds are stacked against me. Every season is a gamble. Sometimes I think my money would be better in CDs...
From Beethoven to Stravinsky, the best of the new CDs...
Face facts: compact discs, or CDs as they are known, have arrived. No longer mere technological curiosities, the tiny (4.7 in. in diameter) shiny records have rapidly proliferated since being introduced to the U.S. market little more than a year ago. Today the majority of new classical releases are issued as LPs, cassettes and CDs. At $15 to $21 apiece, not to mention the $550 to $800 or so required for a compact-disc player, an investment in CDs is considerable. But the outlay is well worth...
...Already there are more than 800 titles available in the U.S. and even more in Europe and Japan. Among the best: Bizet: Carmen (Agnes Baltsa as Carmen, José Carreras as Don José, Berlin Philharmonic and Paris Opéra Chorus, Herbert von Karajan, conductor; Deutsche Grammophon; 3 CDs). Karajan's earlier Carmen, with Leontyne Price and Franco Corelli, was a full-throated spectacular in the grand-opera tradition. This one, 19 years later, reflects his current preference for smaller voices in an almost chamber-like setting. Baltsa, a splendid Greek mezzo, who is not heard often enough...
...already hit Main Street. One, the compact-digital-disc player, has been hailed as the likely replacement for today's stereo systems. The players use beams of light, rather than needles, to play 4.7-in. silvery discs. Sony last year sold 150,000, or half, of all the CDs purchased in Japan, for prices starting at $495. Sony's two new downsize Walkmans, only slightly bigger than a pack of cigarettes and priced at $99.95 and $129.95, are already hot sellers in the U.S. Another potential hit for Sony is its 3.5-in. micro-floppy-disc drive...