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EDITOR’S CHOICE

The 12 most highly recommended recordings reviewed in this issue

RECORDING OF THE MONTH Mark Seow is excited by the thrilling playing of violinist Théotime Langlois de Swarte in a selection of Baroque concertos with stylish support from the musicians of Les Ombres

ORCHESTRAL

Music by the young composer Matthew Aucoin; BBC recordings of Havergal Brian; Mozart from Andrew Manze; Edgar Moreau’s latest album

CHAMBER

The Nash Ensemble plays Birtwistle; Kapustin arranged for jazz trio; entertaining Piazzolla

INSTRUMENTAL

Leonidas Kavakos’s Bach; a return to Chopin for Ivo Pogorelich; Leonskaja’s complete Mozart

VOCAL

A promising new Brahms survey; Pergolesi with a difference; French songs from Roderick Williams

OPERA

Abrahamsen’s The Snow Queen; Handel’s Semele

JAZZ & WORLD MUSIC

Reviews from our sister titles Jazzwise and Songlines

ONLINE CONCERTS & EVENTS Richard Bratby on a range of online offerings

REISSUES

Scriabin’s piano music; a Jean-Pierre Rampal box

BOX-SET ROUND-UP

REPLAY

Rob Cowan on recent releases from the archives

CLASSICS RECONSIDERED Richard Whitehouse and David Gutman on the Gershwin Concerto in F from Previn in 1971

BOOKS

Hugo Wolf’s songs; the work of Bang on a Can

GRAMOPHONE COLLECTION Mark Pullinger delves into the current recordings of Resphighi’s evocative Fountains/Pines of Rome

REVIEWS INDEX

FOR THE RECORD

All the latest classical music news

CELEBRATING JOHN ADAMS As he hits his 75th birthday, the US composer John Adams is as prolific as ever. Patrick Rucker explores the ongoing achievements of this distinctive voice in American contemporary music

ZIMMERMANN ON SOLO BACH The German violinist Frank Peter Zimmermann has, he tells Lindsay Kemp, used lockdown to devote himself to the Six Sonatas and Partitas – but will he record them all or stop at Volume 1?

HUNGARIAN HERO-HEROINE The soprano Em˝othe Bárath has greatly enjoyed exploring the higher and lower timbres of her voice in Handel arias written for both ‘trouser’ roles and female roles, finds Amanda Holloway

MUSICIAN AND THE SCORE Raphaël Pichon talks to Lindsay Kemp about his studious approach to Bach’s St Matthew Passion

ICONS

Jed Distler recalls the myriad achievements of Charles Rosen, an academic who wrote about Classical style but, first and foremost, a celebrated pianist who worked with notable composers CONTEMPORARY COMPOSERS Pwyll ap Siôn profiles the American composer Sarah Kirkland Snider, whose blend of rock, classical, ambient and minimalist elements makes her the ideal collaborative musician

WHAT NEXT?

Gavin Dixon begins with Carmina Burana, Orff’s ‘epic hymn to the joys of spring, food and wine’, before branching off into medieval morality tales, reimagined rituals and drinking songs

HIGH FIDELITY

NEW RELEASES

MY MUSIC

The composer-producer Nitin Sawhney on following in the footsteps of Benjamin Britten

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