Contents – June 2011

‘As the Mater Gloriosa floats into view and the force of love becomes unstoppable, Tennstedt is overwhelming’ Edward Seckerson on Klaus Tennstedt’s newly released archive recording of Mahler’s Eighth Symphony – page 59

Letters Worst-ever covers? There’s more…

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editor’s choice Zelenka masterpieces rediscovered; Martha Argerich, sublime in Switzerland;

the genius of CPE Bach

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S o u n d b i t e S

E C C L E S T o N E

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p h o t o g r a p h y

For the record Andsnes and the Emersons off to Sony; David Pountney comes home to WNO; Joan Sutherland sets launch new opera label

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a conversation with… Thomas Zehetmair, violinist, conductor,

polymath and champion of neglected composer Hans Gál

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diary English baritone Christopher Maltman grapples with the concept of recording, even while doing rather a lot of it

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one to watch Korean soprano Yeree Suh has attracted the ear of René Jacobs and is recording for a bold online-only label

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PhiLiP Kennicott For American reviewers, John Steane carried the flame of a particularly

British tradition

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biograPhy oF an instrument When instruments created from a painting didn’t go according to plan

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F e A t u R e S

tomorrow’s conducting icons Yannick Nézet-Séguin leads Gramophone’s parade of the 10 young conductors to watch

– with a little help from Claudio Abbado, Daniel Barenboim and more of today’s greats

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stePhen hough, comPoser Around the piano with the Prince Consort and their new virtuoso composer – and it all started at the Gramophone Awards (sort of)

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the gramoPhone coLLection Bach’s Sonatas and Partitas for solo violin form a cornerstone of the violinist’s repertoire. With so many recordings to choose from,

Duncan Druce finds the one to own

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e n C o R e musicaL journeys An unexpected chamber music encounter in Eilat; Beirut’s leading festival; a winter music paradise in Norway

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tune-surFing Online Beethoven from the Elias Quartet;

concerts from the all-new medici.tv

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audio and visuaL Whither the CD in the download age?

A streaming triumph from Naim

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my music Neil Sedaka is known to millions but few know about his expulsion from the International Tchaikovsky Competition

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Gramophone’s 10 have reasons to smile 32

Unusual collaboration: Hough and Co 42

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