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Gramophone Magazine

May 01 2021
Magazine

Gramophone enriches your classical music experience and connects you with great recordings. Packed with features across all classical music genres, our globally acclaimed writers will inform and entertain you with independent and intelligent editorial and more than 150 reviews in every issue. Our reputation is founded on our acclaimed critical analyses of the latest CD releases, in-depth features and interviews with classical stars, and our comprehensive coverage of recorded and live music. Please Note: This price excludes VAT which will be added when you checkout.

GRAMOPHONE Covering recording - past, present and future • 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

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

FOR THE RECORD

ONE TO WATCH

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

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

GRAMOPHONE GUIDE TO … Allemande • Lindsay Kemp on the origins of this ‘grave’ dance which was standardised by JS Bach

ARTISTS & their INSTRUMENTS • Sergio Azzolini on his ‘Vivaldi bassoon’

FROM WHERE I SIT • If football commentators can get technical, why can’t musical ones, asks Edward Seckerson

EMERGING from the darkness • Despite Covid’s devastating tidal-wave effect on the music world, pianist Leif Ove Andsnes has miraculously salvaged his Mozart Momentum project for Sony Classical. He is amazed and grateful, he tells Hugo Shirley in Berlin

STEPPING BACK IN TIME • For Alamire’s new album, the ensemble’s Artistic Director David Skinner has returned a major Byrd collection to its roots. Martin Cullingford listens in

I am Pierrot • Violinist Patricia Kopatchinskaja has long dreamed of inhabiting the puppet-human of Schoenberg’s surrealist cabaret. Now she has recorded the Sprechstimme role – an intuitive process that defies analysis, she tells Andrew Mellor

VIRTUAL REALITY POLYPHONY • A new recording from the Binchois Consort applies the recreated acoustic of Linlithgow’s now-ruined Chapel Royal to Scottish Renaissance vocal polyphony, challenging our perception of how this music would have sounded, finds Fabrice Fitch

GRAMOPHONE RECORDING OF THE MONTH • Tim Ashley is moved by a reconstruction of a concert hosted by Marcel Proust, performed with flair and sensitivity by Théotime Langlois de Swarte and Tanguy de Williencourt

Orchestral

GRAMOPHONE Collector A MAGNIFICENT SEVEN • Guy Rickards explores recent releases of British symphonies in what is becoming a Golden Age for the recording of these large-scale works

Bach’s Solo Violin Partita No 2 • Violinist Augustin Hadelich shares his tips on interpretation with Lindsay Kemp

Chamber

DEFINING MOMENTS

Dennis Brain • As we approach the centenary of the horn player’s birth, Tully Potter recalls the exceptional natural gifts of this fine solo and orchestral artist whose career tragically ended at the age of 36

THE ESSENTIAL RECORDING

Instrumental

GRAMOPHONE Focus THE KING’S ORGAN RESTORED • Marc Rochester enjoys a film about the rebuilding of an iconic instrument

COLL FACTS

Francisco Coll • Peter Quantrill peers into the surrealist world of a Spanish composer learning to be more shameless with each new piece

COLL ON RECORD • Better late than never: three recent albums

Vocal

WHAT NEXT? • Do you have a favourite piece and want to explore further? Our monthly feature suggests some musical journeys...


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Gramophone enriches your classical music experience and connects you with great recordings. Packed with features across all classical music genres, our globally acclaimed writers will inform and entertain you with independent and intelligent editorial and more than 150 reviews in every issue. Our reputation is founded on our acclaimed critical analyses of the latest CD releases, in-depth features and interviews with classical stars, and our comprehensive coverage of recorded and live music. Please Note: This price excludes VAT which will be added when you checkout.

GRAMOPHONE Covering recording - past, present and future • 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

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

FOR THE RECORD

ONE TO WATCH

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

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

GRAMOPHONE GUIDE TO … Allemande • Lindsay Kemp on the origins of this ‘grave’ dance which was standardised by JS Bach

ARTISTS & their INSTRUMENTS • Sergio Azzolini on his ‘Vivaldi bassoon’

FROM WHERE I SIT • If football commentators can get technical, why can’t musical ones, asks Edward Seckerson

EMERGING from the darkness • Despite Covid’s devastating tidal-wave effect on the music world, pianist Leif Ove Andsnes has miraculously salvaged his Mozart Momentum project for Sony Classical. He is amazed and grateful, he tells Hugo Shirley in Berlin

STEPPING BACK IN TIME • For Alamire’s new album, the ensemble’s Artistic Director David Skinner has returned a major Byrd collection to its roots. Martin Cullingford listens in

I am Pierrot • Violinist Patricia Kopatchinskaja has long dreamed of inhabiting the puppet-human of Schoenberg’s surrealist cabaret. Now she has recorded the Sprechstimme role – an intuitive process that defies analysis, she tells Andrew Mellor

VIRTUAL REALITY POLYPHONY • A new recording from the Binchois Consort applies the recreated acoustic of Linlithgow’s now-ruined Chapel Royal to Scottish Renaissance vocal polyphony, challenging our perception of how this music would have sounded, finds Fabrice Fitch

GRAMOPHONE RECORDING OF THE MONTH • Tim Ashley is moved by a reconstruction of a concert hosted by Marcel Proust, performed with flair and sensitivity by Théotime Langlois de Swarte and Tanguy de Williencourt

Orchestral

GRAMOPHONE Collector A MAGNIFICENT SEVEN • Guy Rickards explores recent releases of British symphonies in what is becoming a Golden Age for the recording of these large-scale works

Bach’s Solo Violin Partita No 2 • Violinist Augustin Hadelich shares his tips on interpretation with Lindsay Kemp

Chamber

DEFINING MOMENTS

Dennis Brain • As we approach the centenary of the horn player’s birth, Tully Potter recalls the exceptional natural gifts of this fine solo and orchestral artist whose career tragically ended at the age of 36

THE ESSENTIAL RECORDING

Instrumental

GRAMOPHONE Focus THE KING’S ORGAN RESTORED • Marc Rochester enjoys a film about the rebuilding of an iconic instrument

COLL FACTS

Francisco Coll • Peter Quantrill peers into the surrealist world of a Spanish composer learning to be more shameless with each new piece

COLL ON RECORD • Better late than never: three recent albums

Vocal

WHAT NEXT? • Do you have a favourite piece and want to explore further? Our monthly feature suggests some musical journeys...


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