36 Kirill Gerstein

Apri l rev iews Your guide to the best new recordings and books

Phantasm rethink works by JS Bach

48 Egypt in music

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68 Recording of the Month

Johann Sebastian Bach The Well-Tempered Consor t III ‘This intensely moving and highly intimate music-making reduced me to tears on my first hearing’

70 Orchestral 74 Concerto 78 Opera 80 Choral &

Song 83 Chamber 86 Instrumental 91 Wor l d

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