CONTENT~
REVIEW~ Wolfgang Sawallisch launches a new Beethoven symphony series with the Royal COllcertgebouw Orchestra (~ 73), Nigel Kennedy and Klaus Tennstedt perform the Beethoven Violin Concerto (. " 73) and Daniel Barenboim plays Ravel with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra (~ 86). Rudolf Kempe 's celebrated Strauss recordings retllrn on CD (~ 89) . The MelDs Quartet have recorded Schubert's last quartets for the second time (~ 98) and Melvyn Tan performs Beethoven on the composer's own piano (-cr 101). Hilary Finch reviews a new "M essiah " recording from Martin Pearlman ( po 119) and Richard Osborne considers a Rossini "Messa di gloria " from Sir Neville Marriner (~ 123). Kathleen Battle, P//Zcido Domingo and Frank Lopardo sings Rossini's "l l barbiere di Sivig/ia " ( po 139).
NEW RELEASES A listing of new Compact Discs, Cassettes and LPs appearing this month ( po 186) .
INDEX TO REVIEWS
A guide 10 the reviews appearing this month.
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CORRESPONDENCE
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Thefirst classical stereo recordings on tape and th e composer versus the critic.
NEWS& VIEWS
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Interviews with Melvyn Tan , Andrew Parrott, Piers Lane and Nigel Kennedy .
EARLY MUSIC RETROSPECT
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Tess Knighton considers recent recordings of Renaissance and preBaroque music, with a special emphasis on Spain .
NORTH AMERICAN PERSPECTIVE A2 A survey for North American readers of records appearing this month (following page 32) with a North American Distributor appearing on page A10 (following page 48 ) .
THE GRAMOPHONE COLLECTION 31 John Milsom considers the organ music of Olivier Messiaen.
SIMON RATTLE
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Edward Seckerson profiles Britain's leading conductor , and talks to him about recording Ii ve .
THE GRAMOPHONE AWARDS
Photographsjrom this year's GRAMOPHONE Awards.
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CRITICS' CHOICE
Our critics nominate their own Javourite records of the year.
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REVIEWS
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Orchestral- 71. Chamber-93. Instrumental-lOl . Choral & Song113. Opera-135. Christmas-143. Brass & Military-l43. Spok en Word--144. Historic Recordings-148. Jazz-156. Collectors' Corner-/60.
AUDIO
Sounds in Retrospect-163. Symphony Hall-168 . Arcam Delta 100 Dolby S Casselle Deck-l70. Sony TA-F770ES Int egrated Amplif ier-l7I. Pioneer PD-S80l Compact Disc Player-l72. New Products-l 75.
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INDEX TO ADVERTISERS DISTRIBUTOR DIRECTORY A table of UK distributors .
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HINDSIGHT
Alan Sanders looks through back issues ofGRAMOPHONE of60, 40 and 20 years ago.
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FRONT COVER Simon Rattle appears on the front cover. We review his new recordings of the First Symphonies of Mahler and Walton on pages 82 and 90. Edward Seckerson talks to him on page 40 and Geoffrey Horn visits an EMI/Ratlle recording session on page 168. ( PholO: EMI/Carnegie )
NEXT MONTH The German violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter isfeatured on the January 1993 front cover to coin cide with her new recording of Berg's Viol in ConcerlO. Also nex t month, Jonathan Swain considers the available versions ofDebussy ·s "La mer·'.
The January 1993 issue is published Oil Wednesday 16th December.
