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GRAMOPHONE • Founded in 1923 by Sir Compton Mackenzie and Christopher Stone as ‘an organ of candid opinion for the numerous possessors of gramophones’

THIS MONTH’S CONTRIBUTORS

Gramophone Magazine • Volume 101 Number 1233

GRAMOPHONE EDITOR’S CHOICE • Martin Cullingford’s pick of the finest recordings from this month’s reviews

FOR THE RECORD • Yunchan Lim joins Decca Classics

ONE TO WATCH • La Néréide vocal ensemble

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Ulster Hall, Belfast • In the latest of our series exploring recording venues Tim Parry reports on a fine Victorian hall in the heart of Belfast’s city centre

Isata Kanneh-Mason • The pianist on her role in a new documentary film about Fanny Mendelssohn

WHAT NEXT? • In our guide to further listening, David Threasher takes as his starting point Schumann’s Symphony No 3, ‘Rhenish’ – where will his musical journey lead?

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SINGING TOWARDS A CENTURY • James Jolly catches up with Carolyn Sampson as the English soprano approaches a major milestone in her recording career

AMONG THE HIGH HILLS • As one chapter ends for Sir Mark Elder, another begins - and with a major new recording of the work many consider Delius’s masterpiece, says Andrew Mellor

Bayerisches Staatsorchester • A new label from an old orchestra is having a huge impact on the catalogue - and on Gramophone’s critics. In conversation with its creator, Andrew Mellor finds out what BSO Recordings stands for - both literally and artistically

GRAMOPHONE RECORDING OF THE MONTH • History has been unkind to Offenbach’s La princesse de Trébizonde but, as Richard Bratby discovers, Opera Rara captures the work’s magic

Orchestral

Ravel’s Daphnis et Chloé • Thanks to a complete revision of the score and parts, John Wilson’s new recording gets closer than ever before to the composer’s intentions, as he tells Mark Pullinger

Chamber

Cecilia Bartoli • Shifting into the first decade of this century, David Patrick Stearns celebrates one of the most virtuosic and innovative singers of the time – who redefined what it is to be a mezzo

Instrumental

NEW AND RECENT RELEASES

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Georges Aperghis • His works explore the point at which the musicality of the word and the verbalisation of sound converge, says Liam Cagney

Vocal

ONLINE CONCERTS & EVENTS • Andrew Farach-Colton explores a range of web-based concerts

Opera

JAZZ, WORLD MUSIC AND MUSICALS REVIEWS • The Editors of Gramophone’s sister music magazines, Jazzwise, Songlines and Musicals, recommend some of their favourite recordings from the past month

Introducing… MUSICALS

REISSUES & ARCHIVE • Our monthly guide to the most exciting catalogue releases, historic issues and box-sets

BOX-SET Round-up • Rob Cowan dips into two vocal collections, plus a German pianist’s Liszt and...