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EDITOR’S CHOICE

The 12 most highly recommended recordings of the month

FOR THE RECORD

The latest classical music news

RECORDING OF THE MONTH 26 Janá∂ek and Schumann from Marc-André Hamelin

ORCHESTRAL

Violin concertos from Chad Hoopes and Antje Weithaas; piano concertos from Julia Zilberquit, Leon Fleisher, Leif Ove Andsnes and Yundi Li

CHAMBER

Brahms sonatas from the RLPO’s principal cello; exploring the string sonatas of Michele Esposito; Kagel’s trios; Mendelssohn’s cello chamber music

INSTRUMENTAL

Paganini’s Caprices on a flute; Mahan Esfahani, live at Wigmore Hall; Stephen Hough’s ‘night’themed recital; alternative approaches to Scarlatti

VOCAL

Bach vocal works from Gardiner, Kuijken, Milnes and Christophers; new thoughts on Dowland’s songs; discovering Gottfried August Homilius

REISSUES

Celebrating the principal conductorships of Blomstedt in San Francisco and Zinman in Zurich

OPERA

Decca’s ‘early Pavarotti’ box-set; West Side Story from San Francisco; second half of Barenboim’s Ring on DVD; Verdi’s Macbeth sung in English

REPLAY

Walter’s Mozart symphonies; Respighi in Minneapolis; rediscovering Paul van Kempen

BOOKS

Jeremy Nicholas reads a probing and revealing new biography of tortured pianist John Ogdon; a new survey of the development of the symphony

GRAMOPHONE COLLECTION 104 Fabrice Fitch listens to the available recordings of Lassus’s Lagrime di San Pietro, and picks the best

Evgeny Kissin joins the Gramophone Hall of Fame

GRAMOPHONE HALL OF FAME 12 We reveal the 25 musical luminaries who, following your votes, make up the latest group of entrants welcomed into the distinguished Gramophone Hall of Fame and hear, from their peers, just why they deserve to be there

THE MUSICIAN & THE SCORE 46 The Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra’s Principal Conductor Kirill Karabits talks about the score for Prokofiev’s Seventh Symphony

ICONS

Richard Osborne pays homage to one of the true greats of the podium, Italian Carlo Maria Giulini, born a century ago this year

CONTEMPORARY COMPOSERS 72 Gramophone critic Pwyll ap Siôn shows his appreciation for the music of Cornish composer and post-minimalist master Graham Fitkin

CLASSICS RECONSIDERED 100 Gavin Dixon and Tully Potter discuss how age has repositioned Rudolf Barshai’s classic recording of Shostakovich’s Symphony No 13

THE SPECIALIST’S GUIDE 102 Richard Lawrence counts down 10 of the best one-act operas and recommends recordings

PERFORMANCES & EVENTS 110 The best classical music concerts worldwide

HIGH FIDELITY

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Reviews of high-end power amps; a conversation with Devalet’s Pierre-Emmanuel Calmel

LETTERS & OBITUARIES 122 NEW RELEASES 125 REVIEWS INDEX 128 MY MUSIC 130 John Studzinski, philanthropist, banker and the force behind the Genesis Foundation, shares his thoughts on the music he couldn’t live without

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