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EDITOR’S CHOICE
The 12 most highly recommended recordings reviewed in this issue
RECORDING OF THE MONTH Charlotte Gardner hears a compelling SaintSaëns concerto from cellist Bruno Philippe, coupled with sonatas by Franck and Poulenc
ORCHESTRAL
Finnish symphonies of Kuusisto, Leiviskä and Mustonen; Mahler from Minnesota; Robert Levin’s latest Mozart piano concerto instalment
CHAMBER
Chiaroscuro and Doric Quartets play Beethoven; Handel at Home; Haydn baryton trios
INSTRUMENTAL
Bruce Liu’s debut; Christophe Rousset in Bach; Rachmaninov Reflections with Inon Barnatan
VOCAL
Britten from the Czech Republic; Karine Deshayes sings Mozart; Benjamin Appl in Schubert
ONLINE CONCERTS & EVENTS Charlotte Gardner surveys online performances
OPERA
Donizetti from Bergamo; Rattle’s Siegfried
JAZZ, WORLD & MUSICALS Reviews from Jazzwise, Songlines and Musicals
REISSUES
Vogt, Andnses and Angelich retrospectives; the Philadelphia Woodwind Quintet
BOX-SET ROUND-UP
REPLAY
Rob Cowan on recent releases from the archives
CLASSICS RECONSIDERED Edward Breen and Fabrice Fitch discuss David Munrow’s album ‘The Art of the Netherlands’
BOOKS
Josef Hofmann; musicians in conversation
GRAMOPHONE COLLECTION € Mark Pullinger chooses the finest recordings of Stravinsky’s The Firebird
REVIEWS INDEX
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FOR THE RECORD
The latest news from English National Opera, the Leonkoro Quartet profiled, where next after listening to An Alpine Symphony, Thomas Trotter on his celebratory album and James Jolly on Californian classical life
LETTERS & OBITUARIES € Malcolm Arnold’s Double Concerto, Liszt’s Transcendental Studies, in praise of Ulster Hall, remembering the tenor Ryland Davies
BRUCKNER ON RECORD Richard Osborne looks over the development of the composer’s music on record, highlighting key conductors and major moments in the journey
BRUCKNER: THE SYMPHONIES Ten of today’s leading Bruckner conductors share their insights into the composer’s symphonies, work by work: featuring interviews with Marcus Bosch (on symphonies 0 and 00), Gerd Schaller (on Symphony No 1), Riccardo Muti (No 2), Markus Poschner (No 3), François-Xavier Roth (No 4), Christian Thielemann (No 5), Simone Young (No 6), Lahav Shani (No 7), Herbert Blomstedt (No 8) and Andris Nelsons (No 9)
MUSICIAN AND THE SCORE Pianist Behzod Abduraimov talks us through the challenges and charms of recording Ravel’s vivid and virtuosic Gaspard de la nuit
ICONS
The Russian pianist Josef Lhevinne didn’t leave a huge number of recordings, but those he did speak of greatness well worth celebrating
CONTEMPORARY COMPOSERS Austrian composer Thomas Larcher is the subject of this month’s profile, with a suggested list of essential albums to explore
HIGH FIDELITY
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The latest from the world of audio equipment
MY MUSIC
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Ian Rank-Broadley on links between sculpture and music, and on designing a Benjamin Britten statue
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