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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 28 A revelatory new set from the Silesian Quartet of Graz˙yna Bacewicz’s string quartets on Chandos
ORCHESTRAL
30
Janine Jansen in Van der Aa and Midori in Eötvös; Rouse premieres; Benedetti plays Shostakovich and Glazunov; Nelsons’s Shostakovich; Piano concertos by Mozart Jnr; Jansons’s Rachmaninov
CHAMBER
50
Brahms sonatas from Hecker and Helmchen; Minasi in Haydn trios; Mark Simpson’s ‘Night Music’; Vierne rarities; Phantasm’s Dowland
INSTRUMENTAL
62
Peter Donohoe completes his Prokofiev cycle; French theorbo music; Lucille Chung in Poulenc; period Satie from Noriko Ogawa; early Argerich
VOCAL
74
Harnoncourt’s personal Missa solemnis; Machaut from the Orlando Consort; Boesch in Schubert; Braunfels orchestral songs; wonderful Wolf
REISSUES
86
Jeremy Nicholas listens to a piano-concerto box from Brilliant; Mike Ashman on Decca recitals
OPERA
88
Gounod’s Cinq-Mars; a Meyerbeer rarity; Domingo’s Gianni Schicchi; Entführung from Glyndebourne; Handel on DVD
REPLAY
Klemperer in Philadelphia; historic Mahler; Kletzki in Lucerne; Oistrakh plays Elgar
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BOOKS
A study of eight female composers throughout history; a new critical life of Tchaikovsky
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GRAMOPHONE COLLECTION 104 David Patrick Stearns surveys the available versions of Schoenberg’s Moses und Aron
NEW RELEASES
REVIEWS INDEX
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PIANO CONCERTOS
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We invite 10 of today’s leading pianists, including Stephen Hough, Pierre-Laurent Aimard and Angela Hewitt, each to explore in significant depth one of 10 great piano concertos – from Beethoven’s to Tchaikovsky’s, via Grieg’s, Prokofiev’s and Ravel’s. What’s the key to approaching these masterpieces?
THE MUSICIAN & THE SCORE 48 As Mariss Jansons records Rachmaninov’s Second Symphony for the third time – on this occasion for the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra’s own label - Geoffrey Norris talks to the conductor about reading between the lines
ICONS
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Jeremy Nicholas explores the life and legacy of the great American pianist Byron Janis, pupil of Vladimir Horowitz and star of the 1950s and ’60s, and celebrating his 88th birthday this year
CONTEMPORARY COMPOSERS 72 Andrew Mellor brings us closer to the unique and fascinating sound world of Danish composer Bent Sørensen, whose works seem haunted by music of the past
CLASSICS RECONSIDERED 100 David Willcocks’s 1970 recording of Howells’s Hymnus Paradisi is under the spotlight this month, courtesy of David Threasher and Geraint Lewis
THE SPECIALIST’S GUIDE 102 French dramatist Jean Racine has inspired works from composers as varied as Handel, Mendelssohn and Britten. Tim Ashley chooses his top 10
PLAYLISTS
111
Anglican choral music, and the path of minimalism
PERFORMANCES & EVENTS 112 The best classical music concerts worldwide
HIGH FIDELITY
115
Exploring the market at Munich’s High End show
LETTERS & OBITUARIES 124 MY MUSIC 130 Comedian Barry Humphries’s life of listening
4 GRAMOPHONE AUGUST 2016
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