Gramophone Magazine

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Recognising what lies behind an artist’s album • Founded in 1923 by Sir Compton Mackenzie and Christopher Stone as ‘an organ of candid opinion for the numerous possessors of gramophones’

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

FOR THE RECORD • Hilary Hahn receives Avery Fisher Prize

La Quintina Vocal ensemble

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WHAT NEXT? • Listening to Toscanini’s recording of Verdi’s Otello sets Mark Pullinger off on a musical journey through works by Rossini, Faccio, Boito, Dvořák and Coleridge-Taylor

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Timothy Ridout • The viola player on his album celebrating the great Lionel Tertis

Is it tradition – or is it a habit? • Late last year James Jolly met up with the Chief Conductor and Artistic Director of the Czech Philharmonic, Semyon Bychkov, to talk about the conductor-orchestra dynamic

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Letter of the Month

OBITUAR IES

Pushing the LIMITS • Soprano Asmik Grigorian is used to breaking out of her comfort zone. Mark Pullinger meets her as she records the Four Last Songs – twice

Spirit of the DANCE • Martin James Bartlett’s next album is of dance-inspired works by French composers. He talks to Jeremy Nicholas about programming and wine – topics that for him are not unrelated

EXPLORING A CZECH MASTER • Smetana is well known for a handful of familiar works, but further exploration reveals a richness and variety to this great composer’s output, from operas to solo piano music. To mark 200 years since his death, Nigel Simeone guides us through his work and recommends some listening

FIVE SMETANA RECORDINGS • Some essential listening, from solo piano works to opera

RECORDING OF THE MONTH • Jed Distler hears a stunning new album from Behzod Abduraimov, whose transcendent pianism brings vitality and colour to a diverse collection of works

Orchestral

Sibelius’s Lemminkäinen Suite • Susanna Mälkki speaks with Andrew Farach-Colton about a work steeped in Finnish folklore

Chamber

Stanisław Skrowaczewski • Michael McManus celebrates the Polish-American conductor who may not immediately spring to mind as iconic but who quietly made an impact across the globe over a long career

Instrumental

Arlene Sierra • The substantial and individual work of this UK-based, US-born composer is championed by Richard Whitehouse

SIERRA ON RECORD • Including three portrait albums and a live recording

Vocal

BRITTEN’S WAR REQUIEM • Peter Quantrill listens to the latest surround-sound remastering of the epoch-making choral work six decades on from its initial release

Premieres, praises and Poppea • Andrew Mellor explores a range of web-based concerts and performances

Opera

The opera lover’s essential guide

JAZZ, WORLD MUSIC AND MUSICALS REVIEWS • The Editors of Gramophone’s sister music magazines, Jazzwise,...