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EDITOR’S CHOICE
The 12 most highly recommended recordings reviewed in this issue
RECORDING OF THE MONTH A generous selection of sacred music by MarcAntoine Charpentier, including three substantial and dramatic histoires sacrées, are given gripping performances by Ensemble Correspondances under the guidance of Sébastien Daucé
ORCHESTRAL
David Matthews’s Symphony No 9; sparkling Schubert from Heinz Holliger; an ear-pricking project from Il Giardino Armonico
CHAMBER
Complete Hindemith from Roman Mints; the Belcea Quartet play Janá∂ek and Ligeti
INSTRUMENTAL
Céline Frisch plays Bach; Konstantin Scherbakov unites études by Liszt and Lyapunov; the latest Schubert from Barry Douglas
VOCAL
Consort music by John Amner; Schumann songs from Matthias Goerne and Julian Prégardien
OPERA
Michael Fabiano sings Donizetti and Verdi; a Kálmán delight; Spontini’s Olimpie
JAZZ & WORLD MUSIC
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Reviews from our sister titles Jazzwise and Songlines
REISSUES
Bernard Haitink’s complete Bruckner and Mahler symphonies with the Concertgebouw
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BOX-SET ROUND-UP
REPLAY
Some keyboard titans; old-school violinists
CLASSICS RECONSIDERED Hugo Shirley and Neil Fisher listen again to Riccardo Muti’s 1974 recording of Verdi’s Aida
BOOKS
A Janá∂ek resource; a major Tippett biography
GRAMOPHONE COLLECTION A guide to Brahms’s Four Serious Songs on disc
REVIEWS INDEX
FOR THE RECORD
All the latest classical music news, and more
ORCHESTRA OF THE YEAR We’ve named 10 orchestras which have had a extraordinary year – and are asking you to vote!
AMERICAN SYMPHONIES Why are so many extraordinary symphonies from 20th-century America so little known – and performed – today? Gerard Schwarz argues the case for a revival, particularly focusing on works by the likes of Creston, Hovhaness and Hanson
VOX LUMINIS AT
Lionel Meunier looks back over the story of his Gramophone Award-winning choir – and ahead to their next recording of music by the Bach family
HANDEL’S QUEENS
Sopranos Lucy Crowe and Mary Bevan, together with the conductor and harpsichordist Bridget Cunningham, pay tribute to two 18th-century stars
MUSICIAN AND THE SCORE Conductor Thomas Dausgaard talks us through Sibelius’s dramatic symphonic work, Kullervo
ICONS
Tenor Mario Del Monaco, an acclaimed Otello, is celebrated this month by Hugo Shirley
CONTEMPORARY COMPOSERS Andrew Farach-Colton explores the music of Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Julia Wolfe
WHAT NEXT?
Debussy’s only String Quartet is the starting point for an intriguing journey through the genre
PERFORMANCES AND EVENTS HIGH FIDELITY NOTES, LETTERS & OBITS NEW RELEASES MY MUSIC Actor David Oakes on playing a composer
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