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EDITOR’S CHOICE
The 12 most highly recommended recordings of the month
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FOR THE RECORD
The latest classical music news
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RECORDING OF THE MONTH 24 A brilliant Elgar Symphony No 1 from Daniel Barenboim and the Staatskapelle Berlin
ORCHESTRAL
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An archive Chopin concert from Grigory Sokolov; Denis Kozhukhin shines in Grieg and Tchaikovsky; excellent Ibert from Neeme Järvi
CHAMBER
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Messiaen, Adams and Bach from the Naughton sisters; Bach on marimba and vibraphone; the Ebène Quartet and friends excel in Schubert
INSTRUMENTAL
Fascinating recordings for 78s by Wilhelm Kempff; characterful Smetana from Garrick Ohlsson; Yundi continues his Chopin journey
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VOCAL
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Bach cantatas from Masaaki Suzuki and a St John Passion from Peter Dijkstra; a moving tribute to David Trendell; Benjamin Appl sings Lieder
REISSUES
The mono era celebrated by DG in a 51-disc cube; Morton Gould conducting the Chicago Symphony; exploring Zubin Mehta’s Brahms
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OPERA
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Jonas Kaufmann’s thrilling role debuts in Cav & Pag; Max Emanuel Cencic makes the case for Handel’s Arminio; Carmen from Covent Garden
REPLAY
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Two sets explore the art of Evgeny Mravinsky; Serge Koussevitzky’s Copland concert from 1946
BOOKS
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Bach’s major choral works discussed by Markus Rathey; celebrating the magic of Beverly Sills
GRAMOPHONE COLLECTION 102 Jed Distler surveys the key recordings of Bach’s Goldberg Variations from the past two decades
NEW RELEASES
REVIEWS INDEX
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THE VINYL REVOLUTION 10 As sales of vinyl records increase and a new generation embraces the format, Andrew Mellor looks at what the future might hold for the LP
NIKOLAUS HARNONCOURT 16 Nicholas Kenyon pays tribute to one of the most influential conductors of modern times
CHAMPS HILL
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Harriet Smith visits a family-run classical music venue and label now celebrating its 100th release
MUSIC OF THE SUN KING 22 The world of Louis XIV is brought to life by Sébastien Daucé’s Ensemble Correspondances
THE MUSICIAN & THE SCORE 44 Trevor Pinnock gets behind the notes of Mozart’s Gran Partita with Philip Clark
ICONS
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Why the honeyed mezzo of Frederica von Stade is a key ingredient of many great opera recordings
CONTEMPORARY COMPOSERS 68 Andrew Farach-Colton celebrates the open-hearted music of Lowell Liebermann
CLASSICS RECONSIDERED 98 Two critics return to Boult’s 1972 EMI recording of Vaughan Williams’s The Pilgrim’s Progress
THE SPECIALIST’S GUIDE 100 Ten water-inspired recordings, by Lindsay Kemp
PLAYLISTS
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Listening guides featuring winds and the recorder
PERFORMANCES & EVENTS 110 The best classical music concerts worldwide
HIGH FIDELITY
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Reviews of Quad’s new CD player and amplifier, and Korg’s impressively versatile DAC/ADC
LETTERS & OBITUARIES 122 MY MUSIC 130 Julian Ovenden, the TV star of Foyle’s War and Downton Abbey, on his classical music upbringing
4 GRAMOPHONE MAY 2016
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