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EDITOR’S CHOICE
The 12 most highly recommended recordings reviewed in this issue
RECORDING OF THE MONTH Antje Weithaas and Dénes Várjon complete their Beethoven violin sonata cycle, and Rob Cowan is particularly impressed by the final instalment
ORCHESTRAL
Sir Simon Rattle conducts Britten symphonies; Danny Elfman concertos; Janowski’s Schumann; Shostakovich’s ‘Babiy Yar’ with John Storgårds
CHAMBER
Period-instrument Fauré; Manziarly discoveries; Emmanuel Pahud plays Mozart transcriptions
INSTRUMENTAL
Masato Suzuki’s WTC Book 1; Kirill Gerstein plays Debussy; Russian Variations with Piers Lane
VOCAL
Cinquecento sing Padovano; vocal works of Max Reger; Rutter’s Visions; Schütz in Venice
ONLINE CONCERTS & EVENTS Andrew Mellor on concerts to stream
OPERA
Golda Schultz sings Mozart; The Hours by Kevin Puts
JAZZ, WORLD & MUSICALS Reviews from Jazzwise, Songlines and Musicals
REISSUES
Three box sets survey the prolific recording legacy of Sir Neville Marriner in his centenary year
BOX-SET ROUND-UP
REPLAY
Rob Cowan on recent releases from the archives
CLASSICS RECONSIDERED Edward Breen and Fabrice Fitch discuss a 1983 Machaut Mass recording by Andrew Parrott
BOOKS
Peter Quantrill on two books about Gérard Grisey
GRAMOPHONE COLLECTION David Vickers recommends leading recordings of Buxtehude’s cantata cycle Membra Jesu nostri
REVIEWS INDEX
FOR THE RECORD
Major signings from Sony Classical, Warner Classics, DG and Erato; this year’s Proms; cellist Tom Posner is our One to Watch; pianist Paul Wee on Henselt and Bronsart; Bridge is this month’s label focus; film score composer Danny Elfman on writing for the concert hall
LETTERS & OBITUARIES Listening to George Jeffreys; remembering the much-admired conductor Sir Andrew Davis
RACHEL PODGER
We meet the ever-inspiring violinist as she releases her latest album, this time focusing on Early English music and its influences
ENSEMBLE DIDEROT
Johannes Pramsohler talks about his acclaimed ensemble’s ethos, and introduces its new recording of rare 18th-century works
KALEIDOSCOPE CHAMBER COLLECTIVE Tom Poster and Elena Urioste on their ensemble’s new project pairing Brahms with music by some of his neglected contemporaries
MUSICIAN AND THE SCORE Céline Frisch and Alexander Melnikov discuss CPE Bach’s Double Concerto for harpsichord and fortepiano, which they’ve recently recorded
ICONS
We celebrate conductor Klaus Tennstedt, whose time with the LPO was highly acclaimed
CONTEMPORARY COMPOSERS Guy Rickards on the work of British composer Matthew Taylor, with recommended recordings
HIGH FIDELITY
The latest from the world of audio equipment, including a discussion on the place of headphones in a classical music listening life
MY MUSIC
Christopher Reid, the poet and former winner of the Costa Book Awards, on links between words and music, and on working with Colin Matthews
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