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Why a label’s commitment to an artist matters • 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 1213

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

DG signs Chopin winner Bruce Liu

Miloš moves to Sony Classical

Samuel Mariño joins Decca

Period ensemble Freiburger Barockorchester get DG deal

A major new Turandot recording

Alessandro Fisher Tenor

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Bourrée • Lindsay Kemp on the history and place in classical music of the French dance

ARTISTS & their INSTRUMENTS • Benjamin Alard on the Hieronymus Albrecht Hass harpsichord of 1740

The Knights • Our monthly series telling the story behind an orchestra

FROM WHERE I SIT • Edward Seckerson ponders on the dilemma of original versus composer’s revised version

Clear-sighted Beethoven • For her new Beethoven cello sonatas album, Alisa Weilerstein has characteristically absorbed other interpretations before throwing it all away to find her own path, finds Andrew Farach-Colton

COMING FULL CIRCLE • Piano prodigy turned influential teacher Norma Fisher’s performing prowess is once more being recognised thanks to the series of historic BBC recordings being released by Sonetto Classics, finds Michelle Assay

UK FESTIVALS • Welcome to our annual guide for the UK, Europe, the US and beyond! After a difficult year for music-making in 2021, festivals are once again firing on all cylinders, offering a plethora of performances – online and in person

VAUGHAN WILLIAMS at 150 • Festivals throughout Britain – and beyond – are celebrating the rich breadth of the composer’s music, finds Charlotte Gardner

EUROPE FESTIVALS

NORTH AMERICA & BEYOND

RECORDING OF THE MONTH • David Fanning listens to Mitsuko Uchida’s first solo recording for almost a decade – a gripping account of Beethoven’s Diabelli Variations – with an increasing sense of astonishment

Orchestral

MOSTLY MOZART CONCERTOS • David Threasher devours a batch of concerto discs whose repertoire centres on Mozart with diversions to some of his contemporaries

Schubert’s C major Fantasie, D934 • Viktoria Mullova talks to Richard Bratby about her gut-string approach to this magical work

Chamber

Coco Tomita • The violinist talks about life after the BBC Young Musician competition and her debut album ‘Origins’

Lili Kraus • Patrick Rucker explores the long and fruitful career of the Hungarian-born pianist who was ahead of her time in terms of performance practice and left a significant recorded legacy

Instrumental

Ólafur Arnalds • Pwyll ap Siôn profiles the unassuming Icelander who has drummed in a hardcore punkband yet has a penchant for sounds ambient, ethereal and enigmatic

ARNALDS ON RECORD • Lose yourself in the sounds made by this popular figure

Vocal

Gilbert and Sullivan’s The Mikado (1885) • Do you...