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A month of music with roots in recording • 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 102 Number 1246

Editor’s choice

FOR THE RECORD • The Gramophone Classical Music Awards 2024

Jaeden Izik-Dzurko wins the Leeds

ONE TO WATCH • Daniil Bulayev - violin

Online • The magazine is just the beginning. Visit gramophone.co.uk for …

NMC Recordings • In the latest guide to a classical record label, Tim Parry profiles the work of a British recording company with charitable status that was set up to promote new music

IN THE NEW EDITION OF OPERA NOW • Editor Hattie Butterworth introduces the Winter issue of Gramophone’s sister title

Celebrating one of the violin’s greats • To mark the 50th anniversary of the death of the legendary violinist David Oistrakh, Bruno Monsaingeon has curated a commemorative set. James Jolly went to visit him

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

Letter of the Month • The musically adventurous MTT

OBITUAR IES

NEXT MONTH DECEMBER 2024

The complexity of SIMPLICITY • Bruce Liu tells Michelle Assay why he was drawn to the intimacy of Tchaikovsky’s The Seasons

A kaleidoscope of colours • For her latest Decca album, ‘The Frans Brüggen Project’, Lucie Horsch was granted special access to the early music pioneer’s extraordinary collection of historical recorders. She tells Charlotte Gardner about the experience of bringing these unique and fragile instruments to life

Championing Kapustin • Renaissance man Frank Dupree talks to Jeremy Nicholas with boundless enthusiasm about the appeal of Kapustin’s jazz-inspired music and about his own multifaceted career

GRAMOPHONE RECORDING OF THE MONTH • Jed Distler explores a complete set of Ravel’s works with piano from François-Xavier Poizat, a pianist who channels the best qualities of the composer’s greatest interpreters

Orchestral

Bach’s Magnificat • Conductor Justin Doyle tells Lindsay Kemp about recording the original version in E flat

Chamber

WHEN MUSIC AND POETRY MIX • Tatiana Svetlova releases her album ‘Poetic Dialogues’

Nelson Freire • Jed Distler remembers the Brazilian musician hailed as a pianists’ pianist, whose abilities bordered on the supernatural and who left a treasure-laden legacy on record

Instrumental

Karin Rehnqvist • Guy Rickards focuses on a Swede with a truly original voice, combining modernism with the ages-old tradition of kulning

REHNQVIST ON RECORD • Some of her finest music for all to hear

Vocal

GRAMOPHONE Focus DISCOVERING RITA STROHL • Guy Rickards explores a series of recordings that chart the career of a prolific and gifted French composer of the Romantic era

ONLINE CONCERTS & EVENTS • Charlotte Gardner explores a range of web-based concerts

Opera

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