SPECIAL AWARDS ISSUE THE YEAR’S MOST REMARKABLE RECORDINGS

THE WORLD’S BEST CLASSICAL MUSIC REVIEWS

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The year’s best releases as chosen by our expert critics, including: Sir John Eliot Gardiner ’s life-affirming Bach Patricia Kopatchinskaja ’s thrilling Bartók Jonas Kaufmann ’s powerful Wagner Sir Mark Elder ’s epic Elgar

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• Celebrating the guitar’s great champion, Julian Bream • Who did you vote Artist of the Year ?

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