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EDITOR’S CHOICE
The 12 most highly recommended recordings of the month
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FOR THE RECORD
The latest classical music news
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RECORDING OF THE MONTH 42 Christian Tetzlaff and Lars Vogt offer rewarding Brahms violin sonatas on Ondine
ORCHESTRAL
Beethoven’s Egmont from Martin Haselböck featuring John Malkovich; filmed Mahler from Andris Nelsons; superb Sibelius from Osmo Vänskä; a happy anniversary to Florilegium
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CHAMBER
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A penetrating Schoenberg set from the Asasello Quartet; two takes on Steve Reich in his 80thbirthday year; making a case for Rebecca Clarke
INSTRUMENTAL
Barry Douglas concludes his solo Brahms journey; excellent Liszt from Irene Russo and Kirill Gerstein; Ulf Wallin excels in Reger
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VOCAL
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Matthias Goerne’s powerful Brahms recital; a brace of Rachmaninov Vespers; a beguiling Die schöne Müllerin from Robert Murray
REISSUES
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Bryce Morrison listens to major-label celebrations of pianists Martha Argerich and Maria João Pires
OPERA
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Two Mozart operas – Le nozze di Figaro and Die Entführung aus dem Serail – and Bayreuth’s Tristan und Isolde directed by Katharina Wagner
REPLAY
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Stokowski championing the music of his time; Ravel’s centenary marked in Moscow in 1975
BOOKS
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Roger Scruton explores the wisdom of Wagner’s Ring; Oliver Hilmes’s new biography of Liszt
GRAMOPHONE COLLECTION 112 David Gutman discusses the best available recordings of Shostakovich’s Symphony No 10
NEW RELEASES
REVIEWS INDEX
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BELL & ISSERLIS IN BRAHMS 10 Two leading string soloists, Joshua Bell and Steven Isserlis, have come together to record Brahms’s Double Concerto and, as Harriet Smith discovers, it is a meeting of two very different personalities
JOHN WILSON ON COPLAND 16 Famed for his recreations of MGM film scores, conductor John Wilson is heading out into new musical landscapes with his Copland series
SEATTLE SYMPHONY
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Thomas May speaks to conductor Ludovic Morlot about how, by embracing the music of our time, the Seattle SO is finding new, large audiences
AWARDS SHORTLIST
The top three albums in each of our 12 recording categories are announced
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SEASON PREVIEW
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The key performances and events from the UK, Europe and North America in the 2016-17 season
THE MUSICIAN & THE SCORE 60 Kyung Wha Chung explores the intricacies of Bach’s Chaconne in D minor with Caroline Gill
ICONS
A profile of Cambridge legend George Guest
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CONTEMPORARY COMPOSERS 82 An American master: John Corigliano
PLAYLISTS
Baroque flute; suicide in opera
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CLASSICS RECONSIDERED 108 Revisiting the Emerson Quartet’s Bartók set
THE SPECIALIST’S GUIDE 110 David Vickers’s guide to Italian Baroque oratorios
HIGH FIDELITY
A new era for Denon; Arcam MusicBOOST
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LETTERS & OBITUARIES 130 MY MUSIC 138 Comedian Miles Jupp describes how singing as a child fostered a love of classical music
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