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Exploring excellence across the generations • 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 102 Number 1242

Editor’s choice • Konstantin Krimmel sings with an immediately engaging expressiveness, storytelling with clarity, intelligence and emotion, offering both delicacy and depth.

FOR THE RECORD • Nathalie Stutzmann signs label deal as conductor

ONE TO WATCH • Protean Quartet

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Ondine • In this month’s introduction to a classical record label, Tim Parry explores the history of a highly respected Finnish label based in Helsinki

IN THE NEW EDITION OF INTERNATIONAL PIANO • Editor Tim Parry introduces the Summer issue of Gramophone’s sister title devoted to the piano

Elim Chan • The conductor on the joy of opening this year’s BBC Proms

Delivering our weekly orchestral fare • The Artistic Director of the London Philharmonic, Elena Dubinets talks to James Jolly about her plans for the future, and how working with UK and US ensembles differ

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Travelling together • As her recording of Kurt Weill symphonies, her first album for DG, is about to be released, conductor Joana Mallwitz speaks with Richard Bratby – sharing stories of her path to the podium and discussing the journey ahead as well as speaking fondly of her new home, Berlin

The sound of America • Charles Ives evoked his country like few others, and to mark 150 years since his birth, Andrew Farach-Colton delves into the life and music of this most unconventional figure

NEW & RECENT RELEASES ON DELPHIAN

RECOMMENDED RECORDINGS • Indulge in the often strange and wonderful sound world of a composer who was way ahead of his time

Conductor CHAMPION • He’s turning 80 with at least 220 premieres to look back on, but Leonard Slatkin has a good deal more on his agenda than simply reminiscing about past achievements, finds Thomas May

RECORDING OF THE MONTH • Hugo Shirley welcomes a programme from baritone Konstantin Krimmel in which lieder by Schubert and Loewe are combined to impressive narrative effect

Orchestral

NIELSEN IN COPENHAGEN • David Fanning welcomes a set that gathers together major recordings of the symphonies ranging across six decades

Bruckner’s Symphony No 7 • Conductor Manfred Honeck talks to David Patrick Stearns about unravelling the music’s meaning

Chamber

Thea King • Starting out as a pianist, this musician eventually became a renowned clarinettist – a devoted champion of the instrument –who left a rich legacy on record, writes Mark Pullinger

Instrumental

Rebeca Omordia • The pianist introduces ‘African Pianism, Vol 2’, a second musical journey around the continent

Robert Saxton • Richard Whitehouse...