Reviews
4 Index to reviews 48 Orchestral 72 Chamber 80 Instrumental 86 Choral and song 100 Opera and music theatre 111 Video 114 Film music 119 Collectors' comer 122 Historic 129 Spoken word 130 Jazz
Features
14 Ton Koopman
At the start of his Bach cantata series for Erato, Ton Koopman ta lked to Lindsay Kemp about his feelings for Bach and his aspirations for the fu t ure of the project (Richard Wigmore reviews the set on page 86)
Regulars
6 Letters
Inclu d ing memories of pian ists So lomon a nd Curzon, Berthold Goldschmidt's and Ha ve rga l Brian's Cenci operas, th e pl acin g of voices on vocal record ings and EMI 's Special Import Service
A1 North American retrospect Sedgwick Clark offers a transatlantic second opinion on some recent orchestral releases (only in the North American edition, follows page 32)
33 Replay
Robert Cowan looks through the huge EM! list as the company this month restores its international classical CD catalogue
News
10 For the record
News from the musical world, a visit to Anton Bruckner, studio news and memories of the late Zdenek Kosier and Efrem Kurtz
18 Passing notes
Interviews with Marc Minkowski whose first release for Archiv is of Rameau's Hippolyte et Aricie; the youthful Hagen Quartet on their musical upbringing and a new Shostakovich recording; and the scholar and fortepianist Robert Levin on Mozart. John Lill discusses his Rachmaninov series, Alun Francis talks about his work with continental orchestras and Anonymous 4 reveal their identity . Jonathan Swain reports from the Tristan und Isolde sessions in Berlin under Barenboim
Paul Hindemilh
Pho/Q Vec'eulRoyal College of Music
42 Collection
In his centenary year, the music of Paul Hindemith - fast gaining favour with the record companies - is examined by Guy Rickards, who offers some recommendations for the record library
Ton Koopman Phalli GramopiJonelKeuris
36 What next.
The final instalment of our four-part guide to expanding your record . collection, with recommendations built round Elgar's Enigma Variations and Widor's perennially popular organ Toccata
40 The 1995 Gramophone
Awards nominations As the voting for the 1995 Gramophone Awards is counted, we publish the list of the final three recordings in each category that have emerged from the second round of vot ing 2 Gramophone September 1995
116 Gramophone
Concert-going Our new directory for concert promoters to advertise their forthcoming plans to Gramophone readers
166 UK label distribution directory
168 New releases
A monthly listing of this month's releases
172 Index to advertisers
176 Hindsight
Alan Sanders looks back through issues o f Gramophone from 70, 50 and 30 yea rs ago
The Hagen Quartet
Photo VGI Ba.rut
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Photo Harmonia MundilJohunn
Competition
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