Reviews

4 Index to reviews 40 Orchestral 60 Chamber 68 Instrumental 78 Choral and song 96 Opera and music theatre 103 Film music 105 Collectors' corner 108 Historic 115 Spoken word 1 16 Jazz

Features

14 Anne-Sophie Mutter

At 32, vi o li n ist Anne-Sophie Mutter is e tabli hed as one of the outstanding instrumenta list s of the day . In the mon t h that ees her new recording, with Andre Previn, of the Sibelius Concerto, Stephen Johnson reflects on her unique interpretative style PrOIl/ corer photo DGISpechi

A1 North American retrospect Philip Kennicott has been listening to some recent chamber and instrumental releases (fO/lOlVS page 32, only i l l the North American edition )

33 Soundings

In Gramophone's new bi-monthly series of articles focusing on the art of the recording producer and engineer, Ivor Humphreys discusses some recent releases

36 Collection

Richard Wigmore has been listening to the 19 versions of Mozart's Mass in C minor, from the traditionalists like Fricsay, Karajan and Levine to the period-instrumentalists such as Gardiner, Hogwood and Parrott

76 Gramophone

Concert-going The directory for concert promoters to advertise their forthcoming plans to Gramophone readers

150 UK label distribution directory

152 New releases

Our listing of the month's releases

156 Index to advertisers

160 Hindsight

Alan Sanders looks back through issues of Gramophone from 70, 50 and 30 years ago

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6 Letters

Including the truth about some supposedly unrecorded Tchaikovsky, a nd memo rie of Boul t and Cherkassky

28 Replay

Robert Cowan considers some recent rei ue eries, including mo re in Sony Classical 's Pierre Boulez Ed ition

32 What next?

In Gramophone's regu lar series of a rticles intended to aid exploration of the reperto ire, th e 'launch work ' is Prokofiev's Classical Symphony: D av id G utman is the guide 2 Gramophone Match 1996

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10 For the record

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Including news of recent contract sig ni ngs, details of some recordi ng sessions and a report by I van March on the newly restored Philharmonic Hall in Liverpool. Also Bryce Morrison remembers the late Shura Cherkassky who died in December

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Galina Gorchakova

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18 Passing notes

An interview with Sir Georg So lti to coincide with the release of his new Decca recording of CosiJan IUlle_ Conducto r Ph ilip Brunelle ta lk abo ut his " Witness'- series which he has been running in Minnesota, a elebrat.ion of Black American music; olli n ' CIa sics have been releasing the record in gs_ T he soprano Galina G orchakova talk about her operatic repertoire a nd her work in Russia and Michael Oliver reviews a new book about t he music of Olivier Messiaen. Julie Anne Sadie continues her tour of composers' museums with a visit to the houses of Rimsky-Korsakov

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