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Volume 95 Number 1155 EDITORIAL Phone 020 7738 5454 Fax 020 7733 2325 email gramophone@markallengroup.com EDITOR AND PUBLISHER Martin Cullingford DEPUTY EDITOR Sarah Kirkup / 020 7501 6365 REVIEWS EDITOR Tim Parry / 020 7501 6367 ONLINE CONTENT EDITOR James McCarthy / 020 7501 6366 SUB-EDITOR David Threasher / 020 7501 6370 SUB-EDITOR Marija �uric´ Speare ART DIRECTOR Dinah Lone / 020 7501 6689 PICTURE EDITOR Sunita Sharma-Gibson / 020 7501 6369 AUDIO EDITOR Andrew Everard EDITORIAL ADMINISTRATOR Libby McPhee THANKS TO Hannah Nepil and Charlotte Gardner EDITOR-IN-CHIEF James Jolly
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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 38 Christophe Rousset and Les Talens Lyriques demonstrate their consummate affinity for Rameau’s quicksliver ingenuity in a fabulous new recording of the one-act Pygmalion
ORCHESTRAL
40
A Havergal Brian milestone; Gergiev’s Mahler Fourth; Noa Wildschut plays Mozart; a tribute to Vladimir Jurowski’s 10 years at the LPO
CHAMBER
All-star Brahms on Sony; classy Mendelssohn from Quatuor Arod; Colin Riley’s Shenanigans; a final Martha Argerich and friends
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INSTRUMENTAL
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Evgeny Kissin turns to Beethoven; Louis Lortie’s latest Chopin; historic Hoffmann
VOCAL
80
A Fauré Requiem from Yale; The Sixteen’s latest Palestrina; Florian Boesch sings Schumann
REISSUES
An overview of recent LP releases; Rudolf Serkin’s complete Columbia collection
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OPERA
94
Louis Andriessen’s Theatre of the World; a new Hänsel und Gretel; Juan Diego Flórez’s Mozart
JAZZ & WORLD MUSIC 103 Reviews from our sister titles Jazzwise and Songlines
BOOKS
John Mauceri on the art of conducting
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REPLAY
106
Yevgeny Mravinsky in Leningrad; remembering Artur Rodzin´ski; the art of Gioconda de Vito
GRAMOPHONE COLLECTION 112 Charlotte Gardner assesses the wealth of versions of Haydn’s C major Cello Concerto on record
NEW RELEASES
REVIEWS INDEX
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MOZART’S REQUIEM
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As René Jacobs records a new version of Mozart’s Requiem, David Threasher looks at the various approaches taken to completing the work
JAMES EHNES
20
The violinist explains why the time is right to tackle Beethoven’s monumental Violin Concerto
LAURENCE EQUILBEY
24
La Seine Musicale promises to greatly augment cultural life in Paris; the conductor gives us a tour
FRETWORK
28
The viol consort are back in the studio and on fine form, recording Gibbons’s consort verse anthems
STREAMING GUIDE 2017 32 Our complete guide to the best concert and opera streaming services worldwide
THE MUSICIAN & THE SCORE 56 Dvo∑ák’s Second Piano Quintet is explored by the Pavel Haas Quartet and Boris Giltburg
ICONS
The ever-versatile conductor André Cluytens
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CONTEMPORARY COMPOSERS 78 Turning the tables with turntables: Mason Bates
MUSICAL CONNECTIONS 105 Completions and orchestrations
CLASSICS RECONSIDERED 108 André Previn’s 1972 recording of Walton’s Belshazzar’s Feast comes under the spotlight
THE SPECIALIST’S GUIDE 110 The offbeat 18th-century symphony
PERFORMANCES & EVENTS 118 The best live music on radio and online
HIGH FIDELITY
121
Our monthly offering of audio news and reviews
NOTES & LETTERS
130
MY MUSIC
138
The Bolshoi’s Prima Ballerina Svetlana Zakharova
4 GRAMOPHONE NOVEMBER 2017
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