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EDITOR’S CHOICE
The 12 most highly recommended recordings reviewed in this issue
RECORDING OF THE MONTH Rob Cowan is swept away by Christian Tetzlaff’s thrilling Beethoven and Sibelius, in a superb partnership with Robin Ticciati and the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin – music-making that eschews studio-bound calculation and safety
ORCHESTRAL
More Mahler from Osmo Vänskä; an enterprising Stanford disc from Ulster; a 25th-anniversary DVD from Verbier; a round-up of early symphonies
CHAMBER
Alina Ibragimova’s Brahms; the Vienna Piano Trio play French music; Milo±’s ‘Sound of Silence’
FOR THE RECORD
All the latest classical music news, and more
AWARDS SHORTLIST REVEALED With the Gramophone Awards fast approaching, we unveil which 30 recordings have made it to the final three in each of the 10 categories
EVOLVING TETZLAFF
The German violinist speaks to James Jolly about his new recording of the Beethoven and Sibelius concertos, his passion for chamber music, and how he has found a new balance in his musical life
INSTRUMENTAL
Ivo Pogorelich’s first disc for Sony; Mariam Batsashvili’s Warner debut; a pair of Czerny discs
VOCAL
John Nelson’s Berlioz Requiem; motets by Grandi; the State Choir Latvija sing Vasks
OPERA
Bartók’s Bluebeard’s Castle; Monteverdi from William Christie; a star-studded Lohengrin
JAZZ & WORLD MUSIC Reviews from our sister titles Jazzwise and Songlines
REISSUES
DG’s Brigitte Fassbaender Edition; a 20-disc celebration István Kertész’s Viennese legacy
BOX-SET ROUND-UP
REPLAY
The art of Hans Rosbaud; pianist Pietro Scarpini
CLASSICS RECONSIDERED Charlotte Gardner and Richard Bratby revisit the Amadeus Quartet’s Haydn Op 76
BOOKS
A useful compendium of Mozartiana; a detailed study of Stravinsky’s early years in America
GRAMOPHONE COLLECTION Saint-Saëns’s Carnival of the Animals on record
REVIEWS INDEX
THE ‘OTHER’ STANFORD Jeremy Dibble explores the discovery of new scores which shed new light on this British composer previously known for his church music
IVÁN FISCHER’S BEETHOVEN Peter Quantrill meets the conductor to discuss his vision for Beethoven as he records the Fifth Symphony with his Budapest Festival Orchestra
MUSICIAN AND THE SCORE Charlotte Gardner pores over Brahms’s Violin Sonata No 1 with Alina Ibragimova
ICONS
Jed Distler celebrates the performing and teaching achievements of pianist Gary Graffman
CONTEMPORARY COMPOSER Richard Whitehouse argues the case for the communicative music of Christopher Rouse
WHAT NEXT?
Pierrot Lunaire leads to Gruber, Cage and Boulez
PERFORMANCES AND EVENTS HIGH FIDELITY NOTES AND LETTERS NEW RELEASES MY MUSIC Actor Juliet Stevenson draws profound parallels between music and the spoken word
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