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REGULARS 4 Editor's choice Best new recordings of the month 19 From where I sit Gavin Brya rs on th e muse and music 20 Singertalk In search of Fischer-Dieskau's successor 22 Readers' letters Bring back Ivo r Gurney A1 US Section (US edition only) Kronos and Bang on a

Can cellists go solo and report back; US reviews 32 Reputations Carl Schu ric ht , co nductor - and Delian 36 Collection Brahms's Variatiom on a theme ofPaganini 98 Detour. .. Andrew Farach-Colton on Bun Bacharach 132 Going out - Staying in Listing the best live events aro und the world; classical highlight on TV, radio and the web; plus Kathryn Stott on Manchester's Piano 2003 143 Hindsight Life at Gramophone 70, 50,30 years ago 146 My Music Peter Moores on his passion for opera

NEWS 8 For the record T on Koopman 's Bach cantata cycle to continue; the lates t on the UK's li censing bill 17 Obituaries Anthony Besch and Yfrah Neaman

FEATURES 24 Cover story Karita Mattila on 6nding Janacek's truth 28 Interview The Alagnas strike sparks singing Carmen

REVIEWS 40 ORe l1 [STRAl H arnoncourt brings in New Year 2003 50 (lRCHESTRAl REI . SU[::' Some enticing recouplings 52 CIIAM BER Belcea's Schubert; Janacek Quartet on DG 62 INSTRUMlNTAL Noriko Ogawa plays Debussy 68 \ oeAL Savall performs Bibe r; Patterson's Hell 's Angels 81 V O~ AL R£I~SU[S Price, Bonney and Norman 82 OPERA Two Carmens ; von Otter sings Offenbach 89 LWERA RII~SLI ES Broadway and grand opera co-mingle 90 Dvn Bernstein's Trouble ill Tahiti; Del Monaco's Otello 94 REPLAY Ce lebrating Masur and more genuine legends 97 TAKE FIVE Adrian Edwards trumpets recent choral CDs 100 LK)OK R[\ I rws Callas . . . Glass . . . Cage - coincidence~

DATA 34 Subscriptions 122 Classifieds 128 New releases 144 Reviews index

AUDIO 102 News Virtually transparent speakers; hard disk 'library' 103 Feedback Your hi-fi questions answered 104 Audio clinic Our audio doctor pays a housecall 106 Tests & Reports lvlarantz 17 system 110 Bowers & Wilkins

VM I IAS I 111 Graham Slee Projects Jazz. Club 113 Leeson AVR-950 115 Sony RCD-W3 117 Cas tl e Durham 3 118 \VharfedaJe DVD-M3 119 Glossary Guidance for the less tec hnologically minded

Interview Gheorghiu speaks frankly about opera 's archetypa l liberated woman 28

Singertalk Stephen Genz is just one possibl e co ntender for the crown of Germany's leading bar itone 20

From where I sit Gavin Bryars as likely to be inspired by Cup Final fever as by musica l tramps 19

Audio review More unusual speakers from Bowers & Wilkins, reviewed on page 110

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