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June 2012
Features
Preludes
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News ANAlysis
Has the Met’s big broadcast project delivered new audiences?
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musiciAN’s diAry
Cellist Jacqueline Thomas on the Brodsky’s 40th birthday sessioN rePort
David Vickers eavesdrops on a Dunedin Consort recording
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Making the case for Danish visionary Rued Langgaard
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the musiciAN ANd the score
Roderick Williams gets inside a landmark Britten song-cycle
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GuitAr Focus miloŠ
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Gramophone’s editor Martin Cullingford talks to the young Montenegrin musician about his belief in the power of the guitar oriGiNs oF the sPecies 26 William Yeoman explores the guitar’s history from Renaissance Europe to today –and meets period player William Carter GuitAr heroes 30 Emma Baker champions the composers and players who have made it their life’s goal to create or commission new music for the guitar mAkiNG the switch
An increasing number of musicians are swapping instruments for batons; Charlotte Smith asks why and looks at the results
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musicAl JourNeys
Listening live – from Berkshire to California
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hiGh Fidelity
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Wireless music made easy; Pro-ject Box Design Stream Box DS
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New releAses
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reviews iNdex
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my music
The sonic inspirations of maths professor Marcus du Sautoy
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6 GRAMOPHONE June 2012
22 Milo≈ lets Gramophone into his world
30 Xuefei Yang on generating repertoire
32 From stool to podium: Ashkenazy
103 Calling all cellos: Piatigorsky in Los Angeles gramophone.co.uk
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