Gramophone Magazine

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When music for the silver screen strikes gold • 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

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

FOR THE RECORD • Edward Gardner is LPO’s new Principal Conductor

Warner Classics launches streaming website

Cleobury receives choral music award

Medici’s ‘Gramophone selects’

Last call to vote for our Orchestra 2019!

James Hall Countertenor

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ARTISTS & their INSTRUMENTS • Nicholas Daniel on the 1911 ‘Goossens’ Lorée oboe on loan to him

Sound artist Bill Fontana makes Beethoven 250 tribute for Bonn

McGregor’s music commissions for dance will form new album

GRAMOPHONE GUIDE TO … Scherzo • Lindsay Kemp surveys the evolution of a form defined chiefly by its character

IN THE STUDIO

Russian National Orchestra • Our monthly series telling the story behind an orchestra

FROM WHERE I SIT • Soundtracks presented me with a way into the rarefied world of classical music Edward Seckerson

MUTTER’S movie magic • Violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter has been working on an unexpected project with John Williams, for which the film composer has adapted excerpts from some of his most famous soundtracks, reports Neil Fisher

The art of FILM MUSIC • Advances in technology and an increasing openness to new ideas has radically changed the craft of composing film scores, finds James McCarthy

RECOMMENDED LISTENING • Five contemporary film scores with stand-out moments

Who is Kirill PETRENKO? • As he officially takes over at the Berliner Philharmoniker, what can we expect from the media-shy maestro? Hugo Shirley finds out from musicians who have worked with him

SEASON PREVIEW 2019-20 • We bring you the very best classical music events and opera productions from across the UK, Europe, North America and even further afield in our annual guide to the new concert season

GRAMOPHONE RECORDING OF THE MONTH • Michelle Assay is thrilled to hear Denis Kozhukhin bring creative and imaginative insights to familiar miniatures by Mendelssohn and Grieg

Orchestral

A BERLIOZ BONANZA • Mike Ashman hears the evergreen Symphonie fantastique and the rarely heard Lélio on a contrasting pair of new recordings

Holst’s The Planets • Conductor Andrew Litton talks to Peter Quantrill about his approach to this pioneering work

Chamber

Bojan Cicic • The baroque violinist considers the little-known music of Giovanni Carbonelli

GRAMOPHONE Collector A BEETHOVEN TRIO • Richard Bratby never ceases to wonder at the genius of Beethoven, and the rewards reaped by different approaches to his chamber music

DEFINING MOMENTS

Ernst Haefliger • He was a musician’s musician, an indispensable can-do tenor whose singing career spanned six decades. Joshua Cohen pays tribute to a man whose achievements were many and...