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THIS MONTH’S CONTRIBUTORS
Gramophone Magazine • Volume 100 Number 1216
GRAMOPHONE Editor’s choice
FOR THE RECORD • Royal Concertgebouw signs up Klaus Mäkelä
Lang Lang’s Disney album
Mellor’s Nordic journey
Gramophone Podcasts top 700,000
Yunchan Lim wins at Van Cliburn
Consone Quartet
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Church of Saint-Eustache, Montreal • Our series exploring recording venues this month visits a Canadian church that became highly prized for its acoustics, as Tim Parry writes
Trevino extends Basque contract
Orlando Consort set to retire
Stradivari violin sells for $15.34m
WHAT NEXT? • In our new bite-size feature, Richard Bratby takes as his starting point Mozart’s legendary Requiem – where will his listening journey lead?
John Nelson’s Berlioz
Anna Fedorova’s Rachmaninov
George Walker celebrated
David Pickard • The Director of the BBC Proms on this year’s return to a full season
Meeting two leaders among equals • In the second of a free-ranging new series, James Jolly meets the concertmasters of two of the world’s great orchestras, Albena Danailova and Noah Bendix-Balgley
Divided violins can make all the difference
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MAHLER from a new perspective • François-Xavier Roth and Les Siècles’ period-instrument recording of Mahler’s Fourth Symphony looks set to bring about a renewed understanding of this music, finds Hugo Shirley
REACHING OUT • Imaginative, open-minded and a brilliant musician, the organist and conductor Anna Lapwood is the dream ambassador for classical music. Martin Cullingford meets her
GRAMOPHONE RECORDING OF THE MONTH • Mark Pullinger celebrates a triumph of French song interpretation in a magisterial survey of Fauré’s complete songs from tenor Cyrille Dubois and pianist Tristan Raës
Orchestral
Beethoven’s Symphony No 6 • Manfred Honeck explores Beethoven’s ‘Pastoral’ Symphony with David Patrick Stearns and reveals how his musical interpretation of the work draws on deep personal experience
Chamber
NEW NORDIC MUSIC • Andrew Mellor guides us through a selection of recordings of music by composers from Kasper Rofelt to Niels Rønsholdt
Artur Schnabel • Stephen Cera celebrates the great Austrian pianist who revolutionised the recording industry by setting down the first-ever set of the complete Beethoven piano sonatas
Instrumental
Celebrating the life, work and legacy of Franz Liszt
Arvo Pärt • In an attempt to fathom exactly ‘who’ Pärt is, Pwyll ap Siôn reveals sides to the composer that have long been overlooked
Vocal
ONLINE CONCERTS & EVENTS • Peter Quantrill explores a range...