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EDITOR’S CHOICE

Martin Cullingford’s 12 most highly recommended recordings of the month

FOR THE RECORD

The latest classical music news

RECORDING OF THE MONTH 28 Mozart’s Requiem as it was first heard

ORCHESTRAL

Handel on piano, fortepiano and Hammond; Järvi’s Raff exploration continues; three Schubert symphonies from Dausgaard; Jansons’s fantastique

CHAMBER

String quartets from Iceland, Hungary, Germany, France and Britain; the bassoon emancipated at last; Jack Liebeck plays Kreisler’s violin works

INSTRUMENTAL

Nyman’s piano works from Australia; Naxos’s Roussel cycle begins; Beethoven from young pianists; our pick of recent Romantic organ discs

VOCAL

Schubert song from Goerne and Kaufmann; exploring Steffani’s secular canatatas; Buxtehude from Oxford and Amsterdam; Carmina times two

REISSUES

Three box-sets dedicated to Carlo Maria Giulini and a Bach bonanza from Deutsche Grammophon

OPERA

New works by Glass, Hughes and Trojahn; arias by Verdi and Vinci; operas on DVD from Stuttgart and Munich; Caccini’s rarity Euridice

REPLAY

Britten in ‘performance’ and ‘composer’ mode; Casals’s other Dvo∑ák concerto recording

BOOKS

Peter Dickinson opens up a sizeable self-authored Copland study; Jeremy Dibble on the new Cambridge Companion to Vaughan Williams

GRAMOPHONE COLLECTION 104 Andrew Achenbach surveys the recordings of Vaughan Williams’s ferocious Symphony No 4

CPE BACH: MAVERICK GENIUS 12 Still undervalued 300 years after his birth, CPE Bach’s strikingly original works deserve a place in the pantheon alongside his father’s and those of the Romantics he inspired, says Richard Wigmore

ORGAN RENAISSANCE

The 19th century saw crowds flocking to organ recitals – but no longer. Jeremy Nicholas meets the organists who are revolutionising their art to attract audiences once more

RENAUD CAPUÇON

Caroline Gill meets the violinist who remains the dedicated musician he always was in spite of the distraction of his celebrity in the French media

THE MUSICIAN & THE SCORE 44 The musical director of the Dunedin Consort, John Butt, talks about the recent edition of Mozart’s Requiem that’s behind his new recording

ICONS

The Smetana Quartet left a legacy of recordings that remain benchmarks to this day. Tully Potter explores the life of one of the great quartets

CONTEMPORARY COMPOSERS 70 Marc Rochester meets James MacMillan, a catholic composer in every sense – whose music is proof that accessibility needn’t involve compromise

CLASSICS RECONSIDERED 100 Herbert von Karajan’s 1956 recording of Strauss’s Der Rosenkavalier starring Elisabeth Schwarzkopf is appraised by Richard Fairman and Hugo Shirley

THE SPECIALIST’S GUIDE 102 Edward Breen chooses 10 recordings that illuminate oriental influences in early music

PERFORMANCES & EVENTS 110 The best classical music concerts worldwide

HIGH FIDELITY

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Reviews of Sony’s new digital music player and stereo amp, and Ruark’s new desktop speakers

LETTERS & OBITUARIES 122 NEW RELEASES 125 REVIEWS INDEX 128 MY MUSIC 130 Channel 4 News’s culture and digital editor, Paul Mason, on late Romanticism and early aspirations

4 GRAMOPHONE MAY 2014

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