CONTENTS
Cover story Andreas Scholl delves into a secret Arcadi an world
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Collection .....- --------Take a trip to
Rome for the exuberant keyboard music of Frescoba ldi
REGULAR 4 Editor's choice The best new recordings of the month 19 From where I sit Leon Botstein on making old music new 20 Singertalk Scouting for new voca l talent in London 23 Readers' letters Klemperer and youth or music A1 North American Section (NA edition only)
The illusionary and wacky world of Noah Creshevsky 32 Detour... Musical and socia l icon John Lennon 36 Reputations Czech maestro Vaclav Neumann 38 Collection The fascination of Frescobaldi 112 Live Music Around the world; on TV, radio and th e web 138 My Music Barbican Centre MD, Sir John Tusa
NEW 8 For the record Pianists Lars Vogt and Fazil Say
FEATURE 26 Andreas Scholl Cowltertenors and cabals: the inside story 30 Ivan Moravec The legendary Czech pianist speaks out
REVIEWS 42 OR ' 11 [STRI\ L Haitink's Brahms; Ravel 's Ravel 55 ORC I I L TRAL RE ISSUFS Rachmaninov in triplicate 56 Cl 1M.! B[R New Beethoven from the Borodins 62 I I'STR MENTA I A turbo-charged Berlin organ 69 I 'TRUi\ยท1ENTA I R[ ISSUES Keyboard masters 70 VOCt\ L. Bax and Bantock exhumed; Barbirolli's Rossini 76 0 PERA Rautavaara, reconstructions and reviva ls 83 0 PC RA RIO IS [S A brace of Caruso co ll ections 84 nVD Karajan and Solti on fi lm ; Britten's 'TVopera' 88 R[PL!\Y A clutch of maestros and Amsterdam's jewel 91 TA K [ F IV[ A quintet of mezzos revisited 92 BOOK REVI E\>.,IS Finnish music & podium giants
Iva n Moravec is www.gramophone .co.uk
67 Subscriptions 111 Audio glossary 1 22 New releases 126 Classifieds 136 Reviews index
10 94 News Walker remembered; New G-Series CD player 95 Feedback Your hi-fi questions answered 96 Audio clinic A sonic - and stylish - audio makeover 100 Tests & Reports Boston Recepter & Tivoli Audio Model 3
clock radios 101 Musical Fidelity Tri-Vista 21 DAC 103 Limit DVD800SE DVD player 104 Exposure XXIII! xxvrn pre/power amplifier 107 PMC TLEI subwoofer 109 Goldring GRI turntable 110 Arcam DiVA amplifiers
COVER PHOTO, TOBY WALES; THIS PAGE, CLOCKWISE FROM B01TOM LEFT, Z, AKG-IMAGES / PIROZZI ;
) , TOBY WALES; 4, REDFERNS / TOM HANLEY; 7: VIKTOR KRONBAUER
Detour From Berio to
Bernste in - the universa l appeal of the songs of Joh n Lennon 32
Singertalk John Steane discovers a crop of future stars in the quiet back-streets of Westminster
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Replay A second enchanting coll ectio n capturing th e magic of Ams terdam's Concertgebouw
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Reputations Vaclav Ne umann - the pioneering and surprisingly versatile Czech cond ucto r
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Wake,up call New 'audiophile' clock radio rivals put to the test 100
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