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Gramophone Magazine • Volume 104 Number 1268
EDITOR’S CHOICE • Martin Cullingford’s pick of the finest recordings from this month’s reviews
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Linn Records • In this month’s introduction to a classical record label, Tim Parry details the history of a Scottish label with its roots in high-end audio equipment
IN THE NEW EDITION OF INTERNATIONAL PIANO • Editor Tim Parry introduces the Summer issue of Gramophone’s sister title devoted to the piano
Simon Eadon • The recording engineer remembers his Decca colleague Stanley Goodall
Introduction and Rondo, Op 16 • Jed Distler introduces a lesser-played work Chopin composed in his early Parisian years and recommends the version to hear
CARTE BLANCHE • Amid a trio of anniversaries, Arnold Schoenberg’s legacy lives on. James Jolly met up with Dr Ulrike Anton, Director of the Arnold Schönberg Center in Vienna
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Letter of the Month • The musical exuberance of Sanromá
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The making of Marina • An early opera by Umberto Giordano which was previously thought lost has been recorded by Decca. Flora Willson hears from those behind the detective work and the performance
Enduring Love • Nathan Henninger follows up his atmospheric Five Scenes for Orchestra with an engrossing and lyrical new orchestral journey
Writing for royalty • Jack Pepper – who has himself composed for King Charles – asks three of the UK’s leading composers, including the current holder of the 400-year-old title of Master of the King’s Music, how they approach the privilege and huge responsibility of composing music for the monarchy
RECORDING OF THE MONTH • Andrew Farach-Colton welcomes an account of the ‘New World’ Symphony that does full justice to both the dramatic intensity and orchestral subtleties of Dvořák’s score
Orchestral
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Sibelius’s Symphony No 4 • Jukka-Pekka Saraste chats with Richard Bratby about this darkly uncompromising masterpiece
Chamber
BRAHMS’S VIOLIN SONATAS • Charlotte Gardner listens to some new recordings of a trio of works that represent a richly rewarding galaxy of expression
Barry Tuckwell • Tully Potter celebrates the famed Australian-born LSO principal horn, who not only is to this day the most recorded horn soloist but also inspired the design of a new horn model
Instrumental
Joe Hisaishi • The time has come to recognise the concert works of this Japanese figure renowned for his Studio Ghibli scores, says Pwyll ap Siôn
Vocal
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