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

Gramophone Magazine • Volume 101 Number 1235

GRAMOPHONE Editor’s choice • Martin Cullingford’s pick of the finest recordings from this month’s reviews

FOR THE RECORD • Manchester move for English National Opera

The Leonkoro Quartet

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WHAT NEXT? • Its stature might have fluctuated over time but, as Richard Whitehouse is reminded, Strauss’s Eine Alpensinfonie is still the ultimate musical ‘life in a day’

NEXT MONTH FEBRUARY 2024

Thomas Trotter • Marking 40 years as Birmingham City Organist with a celebratory album

California, here I come! • On a whistle-stop tour to the USA’s West Coast, James Jolly experienced some of the riches laid on in the first California Festival, a 16-day celebration of music of our time

Letter of the Month • The power of Ulster Hall in Belfast

NOTES & LETTERS • Write to us at St Jude’s Church, Dulwich Road, London SE24 0PB or gramophone@markallengroup.com; email is preferable at this time

Bringing Balestrieri back to life

BRUCKNER ON RECORD • Richard Osborne traces the development across a century of the composer’s music on record, highlighting some of the milestones in sound and style

BRUCKNER’S Symphonies • To mark the composer’s 200th anniversary we talked to ten of today’s leading conductors of his music about one symphony each. The result is a fascinating insight into of one of the most significant of all symphonic cycles

THE SYMPHONIES EXPLORED • Our Bruckner interviewees on record

BRUCKNER Symphonies 0 & 00 • MARCUS BOSCH on two works that reveal Bruckner’s emerging symphonic voice – inspired by Mendelssohn

BRUCKNER Symphony No 1 • GERD SCHALLER on the immediacy and philosophical nature of the composer’s first numbered symphony

BRUCKNER Symphony No 2 • RICCARDO MUTI finds that this, like all of Bruckner’s symphonies, carries a message for the soul

BRUCKNER Symphony No 3 • MARKUS POSCHNER seeks the truth behind this early symphony

BRUCKNER Symphony No 4 • FRANÇOIS-XAVIER ROTH on a work whose different – and very unique – versions inform one another

BRUCKNER Symphony No 5 • CHRISTIAN THIELEMANN discusses this accessible work which exudes a positive energy

BRUCKNER Symphony No 6 • SIMONE YOUNG on why this emotionally charged symphony is her favourite by this composer

BRUCKNER Symphony No 7 • LAHAV SHANI on the lyricism of this work and the human emotion it conveys

BRUCKNER Symphony No 8 • HERBERT BLOMSTEDT considers a work that’s nothing short of miraculous

BRUCKNER Symphony No 9 • ANDRIS NELSONS on a symphony he places alongside the mighty ninths of Beethoven and Mahler

GRAMOPHONE RECORDING OF THE MONTH • Charlotte Gardner enjoys a highly lyrical reading of Saint-Saëns’s First Cello Concerto, coupled with some deliciously playful sonatas

Orchestral

Ravel’s Gaspard de la nuit • The pianist...