CONTENTS Volume 101 Number 1230
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EDITOR’S CHOICE
The 12 most highly recommended recordings reviewed in this issue
RECORDING OF THE MONTH Mark Pullinger enthuses about a new recording of Tchaikovsky’s Fifth Symphony from Manfred Honeck and the Pittsburgh Symphony
ORCHESTRAL
Florence Price from Jeneba Kanneh-Mason and Chineke!; Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts Sibelius; a round-up of clarinet concertos
CHAMBER
The Takács Quartet couple Coleridge-Taylor with Dvo∑ák; Sueye Park’s Szymanowski
INSTRUMENTAL
Violinist Pablo Suáárez plays solo Bach; Saskia Giorgini’s reflective Liszt; a pair of Ysaÿe albums
VOCAL
Palestrina from The Sixteen; a pair of Passions by Selle and Rolle; Richard Strauss lieder
ONLINE CONCERTS & EVENTS Mark Pullinger reviews online operas
OPERA
Theodora and Boris Godunov from Covent Garden
JAZZ, WORLD & MUSICALS Reviews from Jazzwise, Songlines and Musicals
REISSUES
A 40-CD box of the complete Alfred Cortot
BOX-SET ROUND-UP
REPLAY
Rob Cowan on recent releases from the archives
CLASSICS RECONSIDERED Revisiting Radu Lupu’s 1973 recording of piano concertos by Grieg and Schumann
BOOKS
The life and music of Bliss; a Busoni study
GRAMOPHONE COLLECTION € Mark Pullinger listens to the many versions of Ravel’s orchestration of Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition
REVIEWS INDEX
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FOR THE RECORD
Hyperion, now under the ownership of Universal, launches on the streaming services; our One to Watch is the pianist Su Yeon Kim; this month’s studio focus is Potton Hall in Suffolk; and James Jolly talks to the Director of London’s Wigmore Hall, John Gilhooly
LETTERS & OBITUARIES € Barbirolli’s Elgar, Kennedy’s Vivaldi, and obituaries of the pianists André Watts and Jeno˝ Jandó
YUJA WANG’S RACHMANINOV Yuja Wang has recorded Rachmaninov’s complete works for piano and orchestra live in Los Angeles with Gustavo Dudamel. Tim Parry catches up with her both online and in person
GIANANDREA NOSEDA
David Patrick Stearns talks to the versatile conductor about recording music as different as Beethoven and George Walker
JORDI SAVALL
Lindsay Kemp meets a conductor renowned for exploring a rich tapestry of musical connections between the past and the present
MUSICIAN AND THE SCORE The pianist Federico Colli and violinist Francesca Dego talk to Charlotte Gardner about recording Mozart’s First Piano Quartet
ICONS
Jed Distler surveys the career of the pianist and conductor Vladimir Ashkenazy, one of the most prolific recording artists of the 20th century
CONTEMPORARY COMPOSERS Sadie Harrison’s music is wide-ranging in inspiration and expression. Richard Whitehouse offers an overview and recommends some listening
HIGH FIDELITY
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The latest from the world of audio equipment
MY MUSIC
The radio presenter Ritula Shah on the joys of sharing her love of great music
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4 GRAMOPHONE SEPTEMBER 2023
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