EDITOR'S CHOICE The best new recordings of the month

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COVER STORY

Elvis Costello, Michael Tilson Thomas, Shakespeare

- and a dream of a ballet

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NEWS

Elvis Costello in ballet shoes 22 New labels from the Royal Concertgebouw and Sir John The mighty Jon Vickers 30

Eliot Gardiner. Interviews with the Marriners pere et fils and Paavo Jarvi. News from the recording studios

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LETTERS & OBITUARIES More on the copyright issue and thumbs down for the

Last Night. Eric Sams and Jack Boyce remembered

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Dvorak lost and found 36

Barbirolli remembered 109

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REGULARS REPUTATIONS Dramatic tenor Jon Vickers

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USA (NA edition only) Focus on musical Pittsburgh

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COLLECTION

Beyond the New World - the unknown Dvorak

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THE EVENT

The story of the premiere of Mahler 's Eighth Symphony

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THE EXPERTS' EXPERT Violinists choose their professional heroes

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GRAMOPHONE CLASSICS

Istvan Kertesz's Dvorak symphonies come in for scrutiny

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SOUNDBOARD The loss of national musical identity

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GOING OUT

Around the world in concert, recital and at the opera

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MY MUSIC

Abbey National Chairman Lord Burns

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Paavo Jarvi's vivid new Rite 16

Lucia Popp live in recital 91

Monteverdi magic: Lord Burns 146

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