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Reviews

4 Index to reviews

64 Orchestral

92 Chamber

116 Instrumental

122 Choral and song

138 Opera

165 Broadway Angels

167 Brass & Miltary

168 Collectors' corner

186 Historic

194 Jazz

2 Gramophone November 1993

Feature

42 The 1993

33 Replay

Gramophone Awards Robert Cowan takes his monthly look through the reissue and historical lists

Full coverage of this year's Awards,

and considers the last installment in which were presented on October 7th at The Dorchester Hotel, London .

Edward Greenfield considers the voting and we announce the Special

Award winners including The Award for Lifetime achievement made to

Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

Sony's Bernstein Edition and the next release of Philips Duos.

Retrospect

Robert Layton gives a second opinion on new Bartok releases, the long overdue reissue of Solomon's

Beethoven and some French orchestral discs

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Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

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Regulars

Letters

What you think of our new-look, Fritz

Reiner on record and the price of CDs

28 Collection

Fritz Reiner

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Jonathan Swain has been listening to over 50 recordings ofTchaikovsky's

" Pathetique" Symphony

A2 North American retrospect

Sedgewick Clarke discusses some recent reissues of predominantly orchestral recordings (only in the North American edition, following page 32)

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Index to advertisers

239 Blue Riband

Our monthly update on Gramophone's unique dealer scheme

236 International label distributor directory

240 New releases

248 Hindsight

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

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10 For the record

News from the musical world, signings ~

and recent recording sessions from the companies including details of two music documentaries and a visit to the Puccini Museum in Lucca

18 Passing notes

Brian Couzens, Managing Director of Chandos Records, reflects on the state of the record industry and his company's role in it. Mark Swed reports on the San Francisco-based New Albion. We interview Mitsuko Shirai and her husband Hartmut Holl who have been recording Schumann songs, Yan Pascal Tortelier whose new disc of Dutilleux symphonies has just been released, the viola-player Kim

Kashkashian, Kent Nagano and

Mikhail Rudy who travelled to St

Petersburg to record Rachmaninov

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Kim Kashkashian

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