Collection Hallelujah! Messiah on record, in all its editions and all its glory
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REGULAR 4 Editor's choice The best new recordings of the month 22 Singertalk Opera critics don't write about opera 25 Readers' letters A full CD isn't necessarily full-value A 1 North American Section (NA edition only)
New Albion's horiwns; why standards are bad for music 50 Reputations Tatiana Troyanos, the Met's sexy mezw 52 Collection I f it's Christmas, it must be Handel's Messiah 116 Detour... The many talents of Ryuichi Sakamoto 136 Live Music Around the world; on TV, radio and the web 162 My Music Broadcaster James Naughtie favourite mezzos, celebrated 50
N EWS 8 For the record Rinaldo A1.essandrini and Nigel Kennedy 16 Obituaries Eugene Istomin and Reginald Smith Brindle
Fl:ATURIS 28 Cover story Murray Perahia on Bach and Beethoven 36 Interview Gilbert Kaplan hymns Mahler's Resurrection 38 Critics' Choice 2003 The best discs of the year
REVTE\V5 58 ()I(( -IfCST I' \L Handley's Bax and Mutter plays Previn 71 ( I N I \ CR.\ \L RLI ~\. [S Gramophone Award winners 72 U I HILILR The Lindsays' Borodin; miniature Partch 78 It-. , 'J RL \11 t \T \ L Classic Kempff and Daphnis on piano 86 \ \ I I \ I Alice Coote's debut; bags of festive Bach 97 \()( \ I In I ''L l~ German, but no Requiem 98 (11' f R \ Barber's Vanessa and Alagna's 'Nessun dorma' 105 ( ) I' [R \ IU J"L,L, Callas vs Tebaldi vs Scotto 107 \)\ j1 The Domingo Otello; a quartet of fiddlers 110 j )\ [) R[ I"" l., l . ' The golden age of Covent Garden 112 I trI'L·\Y The art of Abendroth; Casals' Bach cleaned up 115 T\"-J I J\ I Italian music at home and abroad 118 I\()('" 1'[\,1 LW\ A tale offour (opera) houses; Debussy
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Singertalk Opera just 'is', insists John Steane, so why do so many critics ignore that when they review it' 22
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