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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 38 Benjamin Grosvenor’s ‘Dances’

ORCHESTRAL

Abbado on screen and on disc from Lucerne; Nikolai Lugansky plays the Chopin concertos; Mahler from London and Copenhagen

REISSUES

Richard Osborne reviews two new box-sets that give different perspectives on Richard Strauss

CHAMBER

Exploring Howells’s violin works; Mozart piano concertos for five musicians; songs without words by 30 composers; three viola works from 1919

INSTRUMENTAL

Howard Shelley plays Mendelssohn; Ricardo Gallén plays Sor; Steven Devine plays Rameau; Pierre-Laurent Aimard plays Bach

VOCAL

Haydn’s The Creation from Brixen; Haydn’s The Seasons from Paris; Beethoven’s Missa solemnis from London; cathedral/college choir round-up

OPERA

Gluck from Václav Luks and George Petrou; Strauss’s Elektra from Aix and Berlin; operatic rarities by Joncières, Verdi and Zamponi

REPLAY

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Celebrating the Talich Quartet at 50; Kubelík’s Bluebeard; remembering Alicia de Larrocha

BOOKS

106

Examining music history and relevance through the prism of publishing; composer Eduardo Reck Miranda on his art and his processes

GRAMOPHONE COLLECTION 112 Jeremy Nicholas chooses the best available recording of Paganini’s First Violin Concerto

LANG LANG & HARNONCOURT 10 An unlikely musical partnership they may be, but star pianist Lang Lang and veteran conductor Nikolaus Harnoncourt see eye to eye over Mozart

BAVOUZET ON HAYDN– & MORE 16 Harriet Smith meets gregarious pianist Jean-Efflam Bavouzet to discuss recording Haydn’s concertos

TICCIATI TAKES ON SCHUMANN 20 James Jolly speaks to Robin Ticciati about tackling Schumann with his 40-year-old Scottish CO

GRAMOPHONE AWARDS 2014: CATEGORY SHORTLIST 24 The top three discs in each of the 12 recording categories are finally revealed!

SEASON PREVIEW

Gramophone’s essential guide to the best live music-making around the world in 2014-15

THE MUSICIAN & THE SCORE 60 Conductor Harry Christophers enthuses to Lindsay Kemp about Handel’s oratorio Jephtha

ICONS

Philip Clark surveys the recordings and career to date of that most graceful of maestros, Seiji Ozawa

CONTEMPORARY COMPOSERS 86 Richard Whitehouse admires the single-minded musical style of Augusta Read Thomas

CLASSICS RECONSIDERED 108 Peter Quantrill and Philip Clark revisit Karajan’s recording of Beethoven’s Ninth from 1962

THE SPECIALIST’S GUIDE 110 Gavin Dixon recommends works with narrator

LIVE LISTINGS

The best classical music concerts worldwide

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HIGH FIDELITY

121

Reviews of Cambridge Audio’s new amplifiers and Schiit Audio’s DAC

LETTERS & OBITUARIES 130 NEW RELEASES 134 REVIEWS INDEX 136 MY MUSIC 138 The writer Jilly Cooper on the unexpected joy of researching her musical novel Appassionata

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