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A recording is, like a performance, an event • 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 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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NEXT MONTH SEPTEMBER 2022

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...