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EDITOR’S CHOICE
The 12 most highly recommended recordings reviewed in this issue
RECORDING OF THE MONTH The Polish pianist Ewa Pobłocka has recorded Book 1 of Bach’s Das wohltemperirte Clavier on the Fryderyk Chopin Institute label, and the results are a revelation – do track this one down
ORCHESTRAL
Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony from Japan; the latest Haydn instalment from Giovanni Antonini; Andrew Manze conducts Vaughan Williams’s A Sea Symphony; Paavo Järvi’s Sibelius
CHAMBER
Emma Johnson and friends play Beethoven; French music from the Fidelio Trio
INSTRUMENTAL
Ji∑í Bárta revisits Bach; Paul Lewis’s Schubert and Weber; impressive Scriabin from Dmitri Alexeev
VOCAL
Berlioz from Melbourne; Joyce DiDonato’s unusual new album; a Baroque round-up
OPERA
George Benjamin’s Lessons in Love and Violence; Bruch’s rarely heard Die Loreley; Verdi’s Stiffelio
JAZZ & WORLD MUSIC
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Reviews from our sister titles Jazzwise and Songlines
REISSUES
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Chailly’s Symphony Edition; celebrating the pianist Sidney Foster; a Rhine Classics round-up
BOX-SET ROUND-UP
REPLAY
Leopold Stokowski in the familiar and the new
CLASSICS RECONSIDERED Andrew Mellor and Mike Ashman on Kempe’s 1960s EMI Lohengrin recording with the VPO
BOOKS
Mark Wigglesworth’s book on why conducting matters; a bumper guide to orchestral music
GRAMOPHONE COLLECTION David Gutman surveys Porgy and Bess on record
REVIEWS INDEX
FOR THE RECORD
All the latest classical music news, and more
CELEBRATING CHAILLY Neil Fisher meets the maestro in Milan to discuss his 40-year relationship with Decca – including his upcoming recording of Fellini film music – and his ongoing ambition to unearth rare masterpieces by the likes of Verdi and Puccini
ENGAGING GERSTEIN
The Russian-born, American-educated, Germanresiding pianist speaks to Jeremy Nicholas about his new recording of Busoni’s Concerto, and how he’s persuaded Thomas Adès to write one for him
GABRIEL JACKON’S PASSION The British composer tells Martin Cullingford about his monumental and moving Passion, written for the 750th anniversary of Merton College, Oxford, and soon to be released on Delphian
MUSICIAN AND THE SCORE Vadym Kholodenko tells Michelle Assay how he approaches Prokofiev’s Piano Concerto No 1
ICONS
David Gutman pays tribute to Bernard Haitink as the ever-modest Dutch conductor turns 90
CONTEMPORARY COMPOSER Richard Whitehouse shines the spotlight on the radical compositions of Charles Wuorinen
WHAT NEXT?
Peter Quantrill’s journey starts with Mahler’s Sixth and takes us to some little-known territories, including Schreker, Zimmermann and Eggert
PERFORMANCES AND EVENTS HIGH FIDELITY NOTES, LETTERS & OBITS NEW RELEASES MY MUSIC Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters on how classical music – from G&S to Berlioz – has shaped his life
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