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EDITOR’S CHOICE
Martin Cullingford’s pick of the 12 most recommended recordings of the month
FOR THE RECORD
All the latest moves and developments
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RECORDING OF THE MONTH 46 Superlative Vivaldi from Rachel Podger
ORCHESTRAL
The LSO’s Berlioz legacy continues under Gergiev; McGegan continues his Haydn cycle; Mozart from violinists Frang and Hahn
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CHAMBER
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Wigmore Hall Live’s first Beethoven cycle begins; exploring the world of Ketil Hvoslef; Zemlinsky from the Brodsky Quartet; brass ensemble discs
INSTRUMENTAL
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Gil Shaham tackles the Bach sonatas and partitas; Lars Vogt plays Chopin; Messiaen on organ from St Albans Cathedral and Glasgow University
VOCAL
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Norway flies the flag for Elgar’s King Olaf; an archive Die schöne Mullerin from Holzmair; French music from St John’s College, Cambridge
REISSUES
An overview of recent box-sets, including Haydn orchestral works from Max Goberman
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OPERA
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Brian’s The Tigers on CD at last; Welser-Möst conducts Der Rosenkavalier in Salzburg; Terfel’s Dutchman on screen from the Zurich Opera
REPLAY
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Rob Cowan delves into a box of Sviatoslav Richter recordings and hears Carl Schuricht on top form
BOOKS
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Ian Bostridge’s examination of his own obsession with Schubert’s Winterreise; composer Hans Gál’s moving memoir of his life as a war internee
GRAMOPHONE COLLECTION 126 Mike Ashman listens to the available recordings of Mozart’s Così and names the front-runners
MINIMALISM AT 50
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In the 1960s, Philip Glass, Steve Reich, Terry Riley and others forged a style and approach which transformed music. Philip Clark tells the story of minimalism, and looks at how it continues to influence composers today
PIERRE BOULEZ AT 90
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David Robertson celebrates the clarity of vision, thought and execution of Boulez, his mentor and friend, as the composer enters his tenth decade
SUMMER MUSIC FESTIVALS 21 Wherever you are this summer – the UK, Europe or the US and Canada – there’s a festival for you
THE MUSICIAN & THE SCORE 66 David Zinman, a student of Pierre Monteux who conducted the 1913 premiere of The Rite of Spring, analyses the score with Andrew Farach-Colton
ICONS
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‘A revelation reborn’ says Michael McManus of George Szell – tricky, maybe, but never dull
CONTEMPORARY COMPOSERS 94 Young composers couldn’t seek a finer exemplar than Hugh Wood, says Richard Whitehouse
CLASSICS RECONSIDERED 122 Christopher Hogwood’s Messiah, stripped back to its Handelian purity, is lean and vital, agree David Vickers and Lindsay Kemp
THE SPECIALIST’S GUIDE 124 Edward Breen offers a varied selection of music for Holy Week – stretching from Tallis to Pärt
PLAYLISTS
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Erik Bosgraaf on French composers, a critic on Enescu, and our Reviews Editor on Glazunov
PERFORMANCES & EVENTS 135 The best classical music concerts worldwide
HIGH FIDELITY
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Bluesound’s innovative, simple, multiroom sound
LETTERS & OBITUARIES 146 NEW RELEASES 150 REVIEWS INDEX 152 MY MUSIC 154 Russian ballerina Diana Vishneva on her influences, from the Russian classics to Adams and Auerbach
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