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New year, new tech – in its many musical forms • 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 99 Number 1209

Editor’s choice

FOR THE RECORD • Sony label signs Eldbjørg Hemsing and Mao Fujita

Ryan Bancroft takes up Chief post in Stockholm

Olga Neuwirth to receive Grawemeyer prize

Carnegie Hall launches online channel

ONE TO WATCH • Nicholas Mogg baritone

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GRAMOPHONE GUIDE TO … Requiem • Richard Wigmore on how the Mass for the Dead evolved from plainchant into opera

Pavel Haas Quartet record Brahms

Czech Phil’s Mahler for Pentatone

Bach and Beethoven on Hyperion

ARTISTS & their INSTRUMENTS • Keiko Shichijo on her 1802 Frère et Soeur Stein fortepiano

Tommaso saves ROH Tosca

Basel role for Titus Engel

Edusei’s first US post

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

Harding staying in Stockholm

Verbier and DG launch label

FROM WHERE I SIT • No one could have predicted where the late Sondheim would take us, says Edward Seckerson

MODERN WOMAN • For her new album, French-Danish soprano Elsa Dreisig has turned on its head every preconception about the characters in Mozart’s operas, portraying credible, sympathetic women who have lived real, often messy lives, discovers Neil Fisher

HAYDN SEEK • Their names may be synonymous with Vivaldi, but Giovanni Antonini and Il Giardino Armonico are now – with colleagues the Basel Chamber Orchestra – fully immersed in the music of Haydn, to which they’re bringing their trademark period flair and conviction, writes Lindsay Kemp

SECOND WIND • In Brahms’s late clarinet sonatas, he found a new energy and exuberance – qualities that Michael Collins, soon turning 60, has been channelling in his new recording, finds Mark Pullinger

RECORDING OF THE MONTH • Hugo Shirley is won over by an enticing album of Grieg songs performed with unaffected beauty by fellow Norwegians Lise Davidsen and Leif Ove Andsnes

Orchestral

Schubert’s Die schöne Müllerin • Iestyn Davies tells David Patrick Stearns about his countertenor rendition of this classic work

Chamber

Enrico Caruso • Tully Potter describes the plentiful gifts of this tenor, whom he first encountered as a boy – from an exceptional opulence of tone to vivid acting ability in both comic and tragic roles

Instrumental

Inon Barnatan • The pianist talks about his ‘Time Traveler’s Suite’ and the ideas behind juxtaposing music from across the centuries

David Del Tredici • An enthusiastic David Patrick Stearns ‘explains’ this radical US composer, whose life seems to feature a series of trapdoors

LISTENING TO DEL TREDICI • Mainly Alice-based works from his middle (‘tonal’) period

Vocal

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