Panorama of the Guitar

Based on the Erato series Panorama De La Guitare and Florilège de la Guitare, this series was issued in Australia by The Record Society from early 1970, but was not completed until about 1977. In France, 24 volumes were issued, but only 22 are known to have been released in Australia. The numbers of the individual volumes do not tally with those of the French series - in fact, the Australian series features several LPs which did not appear at all on Erato, and omits several which did. The series was reissued twice (although the later volumes may not have seen so many reappearances), with the last pressing following in rather short order from the second-last: The Record Society itself was subsumed into the World Record Club soon after this. Also, the volumes were not issued in sequence, with Volume 11 issued before 9 and 10.