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EDITOR’S CHOICE
The 12 most highly recommended recordings reviewed in this issue
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RECORDING OF THE MONTH 48 Denis Kozhukhin plays a selection of Grieg’s Lyric Pieces and Mendelssohn’s Songs without Words with the sort of imaginative flair that brings music of lyrical simplicity vividly to life
ORCHESTRAL
A pair of fine Berlioz releases; rare Elgar from Martin Yates and the Royal Scottish National Orchestra; Stewart Goodyear impresses in Gershwin; film music by Gerard Schurmann
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CHAMBER
Music by Erika Fox; piano trios by Molique; some distinctive recent Beethoven albums
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INSTRUMENTAL
Two different approaches to Franck’s organ music; Francesco Piemontesi plays Liszt
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VOCAL
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Bach cantatas from Gaechinger Cantorey; Clara Schumann songs; a Schütz series concludes
OPERA
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A Cavalli double-bill; Die Zauberflöte from Salzburg; Richard Flury’s A Florentine Tragedy
JAZZ & WORLD MUSIC
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Reviews from our sister titles Jazzwise and Songlines
REISSUES
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The pioneering New Music String Quartet; Philippe Entremont’s complete solo recordings
BOX-SET ROUND-UP
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REPLAY
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A wonderful portrait of tenor John McCormack
CLASSICS RECONSIDERED 120 Charlotte Gardner and Rob Cowan compare notes on the Alban Berg Quartet’s Schubert
BOOKS
A historical performance reference book; a guide to Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte
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GRAMOPHONE COLLECTION 124 Schumann’s Second Symphony on record
REVIEWS INDEX
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FOR THE RECORD
All the latest classical music news, and more
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MUTTER RECORDS FILM MUSIC 16 The acclaimed violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter has recorded some of John Williams’s most famous movie themes, specially transcribed for her by the composer himself. Neil Fisher meets her
THE ART OF FILM COMPOSING 22 Gramophone’s James McCarthy explores how the film composer’s craft has evolved. What does it mean to be a working film composer today?
WHO IS KIRILL PETRENKO? 28 Who exactly is the Berlin Philharmonic’s new and elusive Chief Conductor, asks Hugo Shirley?
SEASON PREVIEW 2019-20 32 Our annual guide to the best concerts coming up across the UK, Europe and North America
MUSICIAN AND THE SCORE 64 The conductor Andrew Litton pores over the score of Holst’s The Planets with Peter Quantrill
ICONS
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Joshua Cohen praises Ernst Haefliger, the tenor whose 100th birthday would have been this year
CONTEMPORARY COMPOSER 88 David Sawer has made significant contributions to music for the theatre, writes Arnold Whittall
WHAT NEXT?
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With Messiaen’s Turangalîla as our starting point, our listening journey takes us from Haydn and Scriabin to Wagner and even Birtwistle
PERFORMANCES AND EVENTS 130 HIGH FIDELITY 133 NOTES AND LETTERS 140 NEW RELEASES 142 MY MUSIC 146 Jim Maxwell on the parallels between giving a musical performance and cricket commentary
4 GRAMOPHONE SEPTEMBER 2019
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