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Looking back, with both gratitude and joy • 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 1247

Editor’s Choice

FOR THE RECORD • Lang Lang records rediscovered Chopin Waltz

Jorge Bolet’s Decca legacy in a box

ONE TO WATCH • Jack Hancher – guitar

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Hyperion Records • In this month’s introduction to a classical record label, Tim Parry traces the history and varied output of a much-loved British company

IN THE NEW EDITION OF CHOIR & ORGAN • Editor Hattie Butterworth introduces the Winter issue of another of Gramophone’s sister titles

Errollyn Wallen • The Master of the King’s Music on being made an Ivors Academy Fellow

Hyperion NEW RELEASES

Sixty years – and counting • As the Nash Ensemble celebrates its 60th birthday James Jolly went to meet Amelia Freedman, its founder and Artistic Director for those six decades

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 • Mäkelä’s Shostakovich symphonies

OBITUAR IES

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Beyond reality • Fauré’s most famous works are rightly revered, but as we mark the centenary of the composer’s death, Tim Ashley encourages us also to look beyond these to discover a more complex and richly rewarding legacy

NEW RELEASES ON DELPHIAN

A FAURÉ LISTENING GUIDE • Large-and-small-scale works both familiar and lesser-known

With thanks for FRIENDSHIP • Kathryn Stott’s retirement brings to a close a four-decade-long duo partnership with Yo-Yo Ma, one filled with fun and adventure, as they tell Richard Bratby

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Critics’ Choice 2024 • Gramophone’s writers look back over an impressive year for the recording industry and select their favourite albums

… AND FIVE CHOICES BY THE GRAMOPHONE TEAM

Gaudete! • Jeremy Nicholas explores this year’s albums for the festive season, from collections of well-known carols to a new Christmas Symphony

THE CHRISTMAS LIST • Your guide to the festive season’s recordings

UK GUIDE • Our annual guide presents the best competitions across the UK, Europe, the US and beyond – many of which offer an early platform for major emerging talent

EUROPE GUIDE

YUNCHAN LIM

US & REST OF WORLD GUIDE

GRAMOPHONE RECORDING OF THE MONTH • Andrew Farach-Colton finds orchestral richness, generous phrasing and many moments of yearning tenderness in Alisa Weilerstein and Inon Barnatan’s account of the Brahms cello sonatas

Orchestral

Schubert’s Four Impromptus, D935 • Tim Parry talks to Aimi Kobayashi about late Schubert and the pressure of expectations

Chamber

Sir David Willcocks • Richard Osborne pays tribute to the master choral conductor associated with august institutions including the Choir of King’s College...