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EDITOR’S CHOICE
The 12 most highly recommended recordings reviewed in this issue
RECORDING OF THE MONTH Mirga Gra²ynite . -Tyla conducts the CBSO in revelatory accounts of two symphonies by Mieczysław Weinberg, putting the composer firmly on the map in his centenary year
ORCHESTRAL
Jukka-Pekka Saraste’s Beethoven symphonies; Augustin Hadelich plays Brahms and Ligeti; Mahler from Les Siècles; new albums from saxophonists Amy Dickson and Jess Gillam
CHAMBER
Renaud Capuçon and David Fray play Bach; Kissin and the Emersons in concert in New York
INSTRUMENTAL
Rachel Podger plays Bach; complete Couperin from Carole Cerasi; the prolific Boris Giltburg plays Rachmaninov; Buniatishvili’s Schubert
VOCAL
Two reconstructions of Bach’s St Mark Passion; the Odyssean Ensemble’s Byrd; a Sondheim double bill
OPERA
Auber’s La Sirène; Sir Mark Elder directs Donizetti’s little-known L’ange de Niseda
JAZZ & WORLD MUSIC Reviews from our sister titles Jazzwise and Songlines
REISSUES
Seiji Ozawa’s complete DG recordings; Robert Casadesus’s Columbia Album Collection
BOX-SET ROUND-UP
REPLAY
Historic conductors; live Michelangeli
CLASSICS RECONSIDERED Mark Pullinger and Tim Ashley compare notes on Sir Colin Davis’s pioneering Berlioz Les Troyens
BOOKS
Opera in brief; Howard Skempton in conversation
GRAMOPHONE COLLECTION A guide to Ockeghem’s Requiem on record
REVIEWS INDEX
FOR THE RECORD
All the latest classical music news, and more
PAVAROTTI’S GREATEST ROLES As a new film about Pavarotti’s life is released, we ask critics to each name the role that best defines this exceptional tenor – plus, legendary producer Michael Haas reflects on working with the star on Sir Georg Solti’s recording of Otello
MUSIC FOR A CORONATION Paul McCreesh and his Gabrieli forces have chosen the best 20th-century coronation music and used it to recreate a coronation service for the 21st century, recorded live at Ely Cathedral – Jeremy Nicholas was there
MATTHEW BARLEY
The cellist Matthew Barley reveres Isserlis’s version of The Protecting Veil, but that hasn’t stopped him from recording his own version of it – and also experimenting with lots more besides, as he tells Charlotte Gardner
MUSICIAN AND THE SCORE Soprano Lise Davidsen and James Jolly meet in Copenhagen to discuss Strauss’s Four Last Songs
ICONS
Lindsay Kemp sings the praises of that influential pioneer of early music, Christopher Hogwood
CONTEMPORARY COMPOSERS Richard Whitehouse explores the music of the significant Danish composer Poul Ruders
WHAT NEXT?
Where can Die Fledermaus lead us? According to Richard Bratby, to Offenbach, Suppé … even G&S
PERFORMANCES AND EVENTS HIGH FIDELITY NOTES, LETTERS & OBITS NEW RELEASES MY MUSIC Cathy Marston on storytelling via dance and music
4 GRAMOPHONE JUNE 2019
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