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Keep raising your voices for classical music! • 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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GRAMAPHONE Editor’s choice • Martin Cullingford’s pick of the finest recordings from this month’s reviews

FOR THE RECORD • Apple Music Classical app unveiled

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Snape Maltings, Suffolk • In this month’s exploration of a recording venue, Tim Parry takes us to Suffolk reed beds near Aldeburgh, and Benjamin Britten’s musical home

Iestyn Davies • The countertenor on his much-admired predecessor, James Bowman, who recently died

WHAT NEXT? • In our monthly guide to further listening, ahead of the Coronation Jeremy Dibble takes as his starting point Parry’s splendidly dramatic anthem ‘I was glad’

NEXT MONTH JUNE 2023

CARTE BLANCHE • Gramophone’s Editor in Chief, James Jolly meets Oliver Zeffman, a young conductor with a record of getting things done, including a series of filmed concert in museums,

NOTES & LETTERS • Write to us at St Jude’s Church, Dulwich Road, London SE24 0PB or gramophone@markallengroup.com; email is preferable at this time

Letter of the Month • When Hogwood took up the baton

OBITUAR IES

Playing from the HEART • Whether he’s performing Max Bruch or Florence Price, for Randall Goosby it’s about searching for the music’s soul and sharing it with people, finds Andrew Farach-Colton

A perfect PARTNERSHIP • Nobody is more surprised than Fabio Luisi himself about the remarkable rapport he’s found with the music of Carl Nielsen. Andrew Mellor meets him

MARATHON & MIRACLE • Cappella Pratensis have created a unique new manuscript to get even closer to the heart of Obrecht’s Missa Maria zart, the longest Renaissance Mass setting. Fabrice Fitch is invited to sit in on a recording session

CLIMBING EVEREST IN THE ROCKIES • An inspired summit: Ohlsson, Runnicles and the Grand Teton Music Festival Orchestra record the Beethoven concertos. Thomas May reports

GRAMOPHONE Festival GUIDE 2023 • Welcome to our annual guide for the UK, Europe, the US and beyond! Whether you’re a concert-goer, an opera lover, a musician, or all three, you’re sure to find something here to whet the appetite this season

EUROPE FESTIVALS

NORTH AMERICA & BEYOND

GRAMOPHONE RECORDING OF THE MONTH • Fabrice Fitch welcomes the final instalment in a survey of Gesualdo’s madrigals, thrilling performances that achieve intimacy and clarity of form while still retaining a sense of risk

Orchestral

Bernstein’s Chichester Psalms • Graham Ross talks to Nigel Simeone about the nature of this concert piece in religious guise

Chamber

Pablo Casals • Part two of our centenary series arrives in the 1930s, when the great Catalan cellist made the first-ever recording of all Bach’s suites. Rob Cowan celebrates his remarkable playing

Instrumental

Helen Grime • Pwyll ap Siôn profiles this Scottish composer whose remarkable music...