Volume 100 Number 1225
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EDITOR’S CHOICE
The 12 most highly recommended recordings reviewed in this issue
RECORDING OF THE MONTH
Richard Wigmore is thrilled by a vivid new benchmark recording of Mozart’s String Quintets from the Quatuor Ébène and viola player Antoine Tamestit
ORCHESTRAL
Yuja Wang’s ‘The American Project’; JoAnn Falletta conducts Scriabin; Martyn Brabbins completes his Vaughan Williams symphony cycle
CHAMBER
Midori plays the complete Beethoven violin sonatas; chamber music by Pamela Harrison
INSTRUMENTAL
Organ Masses by Frescobaldi; the conclusion of Peter Donohoe’s Mozart sonata cycle
VOCAL
Rachel Willis-Sørensen signs Strauss’s Four Last Songs; a new album from The Sixteen
ONLINE CONCERTS & EVENTS
Mark Pullinger explores some online viewing
OPERA
Lortzing’s Der Waffenschmied; Verdi from Chailly
JAZZ, WORLD & MUSICALS “
Reviews from Jazzwise, Songlines and Musicals
REISSUES “
A mammoth box of Claudio Abbado
BOX-SET ROUND-UP “
REPLAY “€
Rob Cowan on recent releases from the archives
CLASSICS RECONSIDERED
The first of a centenary series by decade sees two critics revisit Mengelberg’s 1928 Ein Heldenleben
BOOKS
A fine study of Rachmaninov; thoughts of a violinist
GRAMOPHONE COLLECTION
Geraint Lewis explores the recorded history of Sibelius’s Symphony No 4 and picks his top choices
REVIEWS INDEX
FOR THE RECORD
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New appointments for Gustavo Dudamel and Daniel Harding; Universal buys Hyperion. Plus: Tim Parry reports on a fine recording venue in Watford; the record producer Andrew Keener reflects on a life with recordings; and James Jolly discusses the merits and pitfalls of streaming
LETTERS AND OBITUARIES
Readers’ reflections of a life with Gramophone
A GRAMOPHONE HISTORY
Editor-in-Chief James Jolly outlines the parallel histories of recording and the magazine itself
LISTENING TO HISTORY
Rob Cowan on listening to historic recordings
TOMORROW’S ARTISTS
Ten influential musicians we expect to shape the immediate future of recorded history
FROM THE ARCHIVE
Some of the finest writing from our pages
MUSICIAN AND THE SCORE
Harriet Smith talks to Benjamin Grosvenor about Schumann’s phantasmagorical Kreisleriana
ICONS
Julian Lloyd-Webber on cellist Beatrice Harrison
CONTEMPORARY COMPOSERS
Fabrice Fitch surveys the distinctive music of Berlin-based composer Rebecca Saunders
HIGH FIDELITY
The latest from the world of audio equipment
MY MUSIC €
Singer-songwriter Paul Simon discusses Mahler and his work with the vocal ensemble VOCES8
