Harnoncourt on death and Mozart, and the problem of being mi sunderstood
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Charles Ives Which discs of the symphonies li\'e up to their larger-than-life
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John Eliot Gardiner in Pilgrimage I I :
thi s time it's
Santiago
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CONTENTS
REGULARS 4 Editor's choice The best new recordings of the month 19 From where I sit BBC Radio 3's Andrew McGregor 20 Singertalk The Grand Tradition , wanted dead or alive 23 Readers' letters Ways of listening, at home and away A1 North American Section (NA edition only) David del
Tredici; Who cares about competitions anyway? 32 Detour... Into the gloom with Scott W alker 36 Reputations Serge Koussevitsky, self-taught conductor 38 Collection The wacky and wonderful Charles Ives 110 Live Music Around the world; on TV, radio and the web 138 My Music Comedian and actor John Sessions
NEWS 10 For the record Wagner at GlastOnbury; A new deal for
The Sixteen ; Christian Lindberg zooms around
FEATURE 26 Nikolaus Harnoncourt Life before and beyond cantatas 30 John Eliot Gardiner on a musical pilgrimage to Santiago
REVIEWS 42 OROiE TRAl Unfinished Ives; Mahler from MTT 53 ORCI-IE TRAL REISSUES Hurrah for Louis Spohr 54 CI-IAMBE R Feasts of Biber, Gibbons and Nyman 63 CHAMB ER REISSUES Menuhin and Vengerov in Brahms 64 I STRUM ENTAL New Kissin ; recycled Rachmaninov 71 ORGAN REI SSUES Focus on Germany 72 VOCAL Handel from Lorraine Hunt Lieberson 78 OPERA Jonathan Dove's Flight takes to the airwaves 85 OPERA REISS UES A ThaiS for all time; Rossini 's Otello 86 DVD ENO's Billy Budd; Glyndeboume's Lulu 90 REP LAY Not-so-magic fire from a Geneva Walkiire 93 TAKE FIVE Crossover need not be a dirty word 95 BOOK REVIEWS Gershwin and Vaughan Williams
DATA 122,1 32 Subscriptions 109 Audio glossary 120 New releases 126 Classifieds 136 Reviews index
AUDIO 96 News New Orton and Azur amps; Rega details revealed 97 Feedback Blind testing vs the 'Black Arts' - discuss! 98 Audio clinic Does surround spoil stereo's sonic purity? 101 Tests & Reports NEC HTI [00 DLP projector 102 Sony
SCD-XA9000ES SACD/CD Player & TA-DA9000ES amplifier 106 Meridian G07 CD Player 107 Bang & OluiSen Beolab 5 speakers 108 KEF KITIOO home cinema system
Scott Walker A singer on the dark side of the earth 32
Reputations Boston-bound with Russian maestro Serge Koussevitzky 36
• Andrew MacGregor Whose fault is i t if there really is a crisis in the record industry? 19
Beolab 5 Take me to your listening room: B&O's alien invasion 107
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