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Travel helps to broaden the musical mind • 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

RECORDING OF THEMONTH

FOR THE RECORD • The much-loved soprano Mirella Freni has died

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GRAMOPHONE GUIDE TO … Minuet • Richard Wigmore traces the musical history of a popular dance form

IN THE STUDIO

ORCHESTRA Insight … Swedish Chamber Orchestra • Our monthly series telling the story behind an orchestra

ARTISTS & their INSTRUMENTS • Andreas Staier on a restored 1810 Mathias Müller fortepiano

FROM WHERE I SIT • Edward Seckerson reflects on what makes the format of the live public interview flourish

Painting pictures in sound • As Víkingur Ólafsson records his new album of Rameau and Debussy, Martin Cullingford offers a portrait of Gramophone’s Artist of the Year at work

Not the usual SUSPECTS • With Beethoven recordings, it’s often the same – justifiably famous – ones that regularly get recommended. We asked Rob Cowan to point us towards others – some of the most inspired and inspiring interpretations you probably haven’t heard simply because they fell under the radar

A century in Salzburg • Richard Osborne looks back over 100 years of the Salzburg Festival, savouring some of the highlights captured on record since the 1930s, as well as previewing this year’s programme

GRAMOPHONE Festival GUIDE 2020 • Welcome to our annual guide for the UK , Europe and North America! Whether you’re a concert-goer, an opera lover, a music-maker, or all three, you’ ll find a whole host of events this season to provoke, stimulate and enjoy

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RECORDING OF THE MONTH • Jonathan Freeman-Attwood is bowled over by a mesmerising remake of Bach’s St Matthew Passion from Masaaki Suzuki’s Bach Collegium Japan

Orchestral

Focus  EXPLORING MAHLER • Peter Quantrill hears three different approaches to Mahler’s vast Symphony No 8, the ‘Symphony of a Thousand’

Pergolesi’s Stabat mater • Conductor Christophe Rousset discusses this extraordinary setting with David Vickers

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Collector EXPLORING BEETHOVEN • David Threasher works his way through a number of recent Beethoven albums, including rarely heard works and arrangements

THE RECORDINGS

DEFINING MOMENTS

Mirella Freni • In honour of the Italian operatic soprano who died in February...