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EDITOR’S CHOICE
The 12 most highly recommended recordings reviewed in this issue
RECORDING OF THE MONTH Edward Breen is excited by a stunningly performed programme from Le Poème Harmonique and Vincent Dumestre charting the overlaps between sacred and secular music from 17th-century Italy
ORCHESTRAL
Edward Gardner’s Brahms symphonies; Gabriela Montero plays Ravel and her own concerto; Anne-Sophie Mutter plays John Williams
CHAMBER
The London Haydn Quartet’s latest album; Tchaikovsky’s string quartets; a Mozart round-up
INSTRUMENTAL
Pavel Kolesnikov’s absorbing Chopin; Moniuszko from Cyprien Katsaris; David Fung’s Mozart
VOCAL
Gesualdo from Exaudi; Ian Bostridge revisits Winterreise; a soirée with Ko¯ená and Rattle
OPERA
Korngold’s Das Wunder der Heliane; latest Mozart from Yannick Nézet-Séguin; a Puccini rarity
JAZZ & WORLD MUSIC
Reviews from our sister titles Jazzwise and Songlines
REISSUES
Gordon Fergus-Thompson revisited; a lavish Horowitz set; vintage Glyndebourne on film
BOX-SET ROUND-UP
REPLAY
Some masters of the violin; Böhm in Dresden
CLASSICS RECONSIDERED Richard Whitehouse and David Gutman listen afresh to Georges Prêtre’s 1961 Poulenc Gloria
BOOKS
A delightful collection of essays from pianist Stephen Hough; a philosophical study of listening
GRAMOPHONE COLLECTION Mendelssohn’s E minor Violin Concerto
REVIEWS INDEX
FOR THE RECORD
All the latest classical music news, and more
Explore our in-depth coverage of this year’s Awards, including reviews of all the winning recordings RECORDING OF THE YEAR LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT ARTIST OF THE YEAR ORCHESTRA OF THE YEAR YOUNG ARTIST OF THE YEAR LABEL OF THE YEAR SPECIAL ACHIEVEMENT CONCEPT ALBUM THE CATEGORY WINNERS
THE MUSICIAN & THE SCORE Nelson Goerner on Brahms’s Piano Sonata No 3
ICONS
David Oistrakh, the all-rounder Soviet violinist
CONTEMPORARY COMPOSERS The enchanting world of Hans Abrahamsen
WHAT NEXT?
From Schumann’s Kinderszenen to Bach and Bartók
PERFORMANCES AND EVENTS Concerts to hear and see around the world
HIGH FIDELITY
News and reviews from the world of hi-fi
NOTES, LETTERS & OBITS NEW RELEASES MY MUSIC British choreographer Wayne McGregor on the musical soundtrack that drives him to create
4 GRAMOPHONE AWARDS 2019
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