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GRAMOPHONE ing orchestras’ ongoing traditions • 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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GRAMOPHONE Editor's choice • Martin Cullingford’s pick of the finest recordings from this month’s reviews

FOR THE RECORD

ONE TO WATCH • Trio Zeliha Piano Trio

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GRAMOPHONE GUIDE TO … Impromptu • Lindsay Kemp attempts to define the piano piece that can be anything it likes

Igor Stravinsky celebrated in Universal style

ARTISTS & their INSTRUMENTS • Matt Haimowitz on his 1710 Matteo Goffriller cello

ORCHESTRA Insight … Iceland Symphony Orchestra • Our monthly series telling the story behind an orchestra

Bonynge and Richter celebratory box-sets

FROM WHERE I SIT • The energy an audience can bring to a performance is crucial to its trajectory, says Edward Seckerson

Perfect PARTNERSHIP • Yannick Nézet-Séguin’s skills have paid off in Philadelphia, most recently in the launch of a new recorded Rachmaninov series – music this orchestra was born to play, says Andrew Farach-Colton

HOWARD SHELLEY AT 70 • A recent milestone birthday hasn’t got in the way of this British pianist’s mission to make several recordings a year – not least as part of Hyperion’s groundbreaking Romantic Piano Concerto series, finds Jeremy Nicholas

SEASON PREVIEW 2021 • Despite the pandemic’s effect on live performance, the music still goes on. In our guide to the months ahead, we pick the best events to enjoy worldwide, in person or online

GRAMOPHONE RECORDING OF THE MONTH • Guy Rickards is bowled over by spellbinding s of Martinu’s two violin concertos from Frank Peter Zimmermann that are set to become a new benchmark

Orchestral

GRAMOPHONE Focus KIRILL PETRENKO IN BERLIN • Peter Quantrill takes stock of the early fruits of the relationship between the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra and their conductor Kirill Petrenko

Martinu’s Violin Concerto No 2 • Frank Peter Zimmermann talks to Charlotte Gardner about his new approach to the score

Chamber

DEFINING MOMENTS

Gillian Weir • As the British organist turns 80, Marc Rochester celebrates her remarkable achievements – and her completely understated delivery of some of the instrument’s most demanding music

THE ESSENTIAL RECORDING

Instrumental

talks to ... Behzod Abduraimov • The pianist discusses his first recording for Alpha, of works by Chopin, Debussy and Mussorgsky

Anna Clyne • Richard Whitehouse has no doubt that things will only get better for this already popular and much-recorded composer

CLYNE FACTS

Vocal

WHAT NEXT?

Opera

JAZZ & WORLD MUSIC REVIEWS • The Editors of Gramophone’s sister music magazines, Jazzwise and Songlines, recommend some of their favourite recordings from the past month

ONLINE CONCERTS & EVENTS • Andrew Mellor explores web-based music-making in Europe and the US

REISSUES &...